.WHEN DONALD TRUMP completed the word "Springfield" 33 mins in to the United States presidential argument on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepared. Because tiny Ohio town, Mr Trump stated, illegal aliens are actually "consuming the dogs, they are actually consuming the kitties, they are actually consuming the dogs of the people who reside there". Mr Muir without delay responded that, depending on to Springfield's city manager, there were no dependable documents of pet-eating. The former president's case should have hit several visitors as strange. But lots of Mr Trump's followers were primed for it: the charge possessed been actually circulating in right-wing groups on social networks, enhanced through Elon Musk, the manager of X. Exactly how did the town become at the facility of a right-wing conspiracy theory?