.WHEN DONALD TRUMP completed the word "Springfield" thirty three minutes right into the American presidential argument on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually readied. Because small Ohio city, Mr Trump declared, illegal aliens are "eating the dogs, they are actually consuming the cats, they are actually eating the animals of the people who stay there". Mr Muir immediately responded that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were no legitimate reports of pet-eating. The previous president's claim should have hit lots of audiences as bizarre. But considerable amounts of Mr Trump's fans were actually topped for it: the claims had been circulating in conservative circles on social networks, improved through Elon Musk, the manager of X. How did the community become at the center of a conservative conspiracy theory?