.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" thirty three minutes right into the United States governmental debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepared. In that tiny Ohio community, Mr Trump stated, illegal immigrants are actually "consuming the pet dogs, they are actually consuming the pussy-cats, they are actually eating the pet dogs of the people that stay there". Mr Muir promptly replied that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no qualified files of pet-eating. The former president's insurance claim must possess struck lots of audiences as strange. Yet great deals of Mr Trump's supporters were actually primed for it: the accusation possessed been actually moving around in conservative circles on social networks, increased through Elon Musk, the proprietor of X. Exactly how performed the town happened at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy theory?