.WHEN DONALD TRUMP completed words "Springfield" 33 minutes right into the American presidential dispute on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was readied. In that small Ohio city, Mr Trump announced, illegal aliens are "consuming the dogs, they are actually eating the cats, they're consuming the household pets of the people that reside there". Mr Muir immediately replied that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no reliable reports of pet-eating. The previous president's case have to possess struck lots of viewers as peculiar. Yet great deals of Mr Trump's supporters were keyed for it: the allegation possessed been actually circulating in conservative circles on social media, increased through Elon Musk, the manager of X. How performed the community come to be at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory?