.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" thirty three moments right into the American presidential dispute on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was readied. Because small Ohio community, Mr Trump declared, illegal immigrants are "eating the pets, they are actually consuming the pussy-cats, they are actually eating the pets of individuals that live there". Mr Muir without delay answered that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no reputable reports of pet-eating. The past president's case must possess hit a lot of visitors as strange. However tons of Mr Trump's enthusiasts were actually primed for it: the allegation possessed been moving around in conservative groups on social media, boosted by Elon Musk, the manager of X. How carried out the city become at the facility of a conservative conspiracy theory?