.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" 33 minutes in to the American presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually readied. Because small Ohio community, Mr Trump declared, illegal immigrants are actually "consuming the dogs, they are actually consuming the pet cats, they're eating the family pets of the people that live there". Mr Muir promptly responded that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were no reliable files of pet-eating. The previous head of state's claim have to have struck lots of viewers as unusual. However great deals of Mr Trump's supporters were primed for it: the allegation had been moving around in conservative groups on social media, enhanced by Elon Musk, the manager of X. Exactly how carried out the city come to be at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory?