.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" thirty three moments in to the United States presidential argument on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepared. Because small Ohio town, Mr Trump proclaimed, illegal aliens are actually "eating the pet dogs, they are actually consuming the felines, they're eating the household pets of people who reside there". Mr Muir promptly replied that, according to Springfield's mayor, there were no reputable files of pet-eating. The previous president's claim have to have hit a lot of customers as strange. But bunches of Mr Trump's enthusiasts were topped for it: the claims possessed been actually moving around in right-wing groups on social media, increased by Elon Musk, the proprietor of X. Exactly how did the city happened at the facility of a right-wing conspiracy theory?