.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" thirty three minutes in to the American presidential debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. Because small Ohio city, Mr Trump announced, illegal immigrants are actually "consuming the pet dogs, they're consuming the felines, they are actually eating the animals of people who stay there". Mr Muir without delay replied that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no reputable documents of pet-eating. The past president's case need to have attacked numerous viewers as unusual. However bunches of Mr Trump's supporters were actually topped for it: the allegation possessed been moving around in right-wing circles on social networks, improved through Elon Musk, the owner of X. How did the town happened at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy concept?