.WHEN DONALD TRUMP completed the word "Springfield" thirty three minutes into the United States governmental debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. In that little Ohio city, Mr Trump announced, illegal aliens are actually "consuming the dogs, they are actually consuming the cats, they are actually consuming the family pets of the people who stay there". Mr Muir without delay replied that, depending on to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no reputable documents of pet-eating. The past president's insurance claim need to have hit many viewers as unusual. However tons of Mr Trump's supporters were actually keyed for it: the allegation had been circulating in conservative circles on social networks, enhanced by Elon Musk, the owner of X. Just how performed the community happened at the centre of a conservative conspiracy theory?