.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said words "Springfield" 33 minutes right into the American presidential debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. In that little Ohio community, Mr Trump stated, illegal immigrants are "consuming the dogs, they are actually eating the pet cats, they're eating the family pets of people who live there". Mr Muir promptly answered that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no qualified reports of pet-eating. The previous head of state's case have to possess struck lots of customers as bizarre. However bunches of Mr Trump's fans were keyed for it: the charge had been actually moving around in conservative circles on social media, enhanced by Elon Musk, the owner of X. How carried out the city happened at the facility of a conservative conspiracy concept?