.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" thirty three minutes right into the United States presidential discussion on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually readied. Because tiny Ohio community, Mr Trump proclaimed, illegal immigrants are "consuming the pet dogs, they're eating the pet cats, they're eating the family pets of individuals who reside there". Mr Muir quickly answered that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no qualified files of pet-eating. The previous head of state's claim must possess hit many customers as unusual. Yet tons of Mr Trump's followers were topped for it: the accusation had been circulating in conservative groups on social networks, boosted through Elon Musk, the proprietor of X. Exactly how did the community become at the center of a conservative conspiracy theory?