.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" 33 minutes into the United States presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepared. During that small Ohio town, Mr Trump announced, illegal immigrants are actually "consuming the canines, they are actually consuming the kitties, they are actually eating the animals of the people that reside there". Mr Muir immediately answered that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were no qualified files of pet-eating. The past president's claim need to have struck lots of viewers as strange. Yet tons of Mr Trump's enthusiasts were primed for it: the claims possessed been actually moving around in conservative groups on social networks, boosted through Elon Odor, the manager of X. How performed the community become at the center of a conservative conspiracy concept?