.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered words "Springfield" 33 moments right into the United States governmental controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepped. During that small Ohio city, Mr Trump announced, illegal aliens are "consuming the pets, they're consuming the pussy-cats, they are actually consuming the pet dogs of the people who reside there". Mr Muir quickly answered that, depending on to Springfield's city manager, there were no reputable files of pet-eating. The previous president's insurance claim need to have struck lots of viewers as unusual. But lots of Mr Trump's fans were keyed for it: the accusation had been moving around in right-wing circles on social media, boosted by Elon Musk, the owner of X. Just how carried out the city become at the facility of a right-wing conspiracy theory?