.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" thirty three minutes into the United States presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepped. Because tiny Ohio city, Mr Trump declared, illegal aliens are actually "consuming the dogs, they're eating the pussy-cats, they are actually consuming the dogs of individuals that reside there". Mr Muir promptly answered that, depending on to Springfield's city manager, there were no dependable documents of pet-eating. The former president's claim must have hit many visitors as strange. However tons of Mr Trump's fans were keyed for it: the charge had been circulating in right-wing circles on social networking sites, improved by Elon Odor, the owner of X. How carried out the community happened at the center of a conservative conspiracy idea?