.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" thirty three moments into the American governmental debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepped. In that tiny Ohio community, Mr Trump announced, illegal immigrants are "eating the canines, they are actually consuming the cats, they're eating the dogs of the people who stay there". Mr Muir promptly answered that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no reputable documents of pet-eating. The previous president's claim must have attacked several audiences as unusual. However tons of Mr Trump's supporters were topped for it: the charge had been circulating in conservative groups on social networking sites, enhanced through Elon Odor, the owner of X. Exactly how did the town happened at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy theory?