.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered words "Springfield" thirty three mins in to the American presidential dispute on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepared. Because tiny Ohio city, Mr Trump announced, illegal aliens are "consuming the pets, they're consuming the felines, they're eating the household pets of the people that live there". Mr Muir immediately replied that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were no legitimate documents of pet-eating. The past head of state's insurance claim should possess struck many audiences as unusual. However lots of Mr Trump's fans were actually primed for it: the accusation possessed been moving around in right-wing groups on social media sites, improved by Elon Musk, the owner of X. Just how carried out the town happened at the centre of a conservative conspiracy theory?