.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" thirty three mins into the United States presidential dispute on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. During that tiny Ohio town, Mr Trump announced, illegal immigrants are actually "consuming the pet dogs, they are actually eating the pet cats, they're eating the animals of people that stay there". Mr Muir promptly replied that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were no legitimate records of pet-eating. The former head of state's insurance claim have to possess struck a lot of visitors as bizarre. But bunches of Mr Trump's supporters were topped for it: the claims had been actually moving around in conservative circles on social networks, enhanced by Elon Musk, the proprietor of X. How carried out the city come to be at the facility of a right-wing conspiracy theory?