.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" 33 minutes in to the American governmental debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. In that little Ohio town, Mr Trump declared, illegal aliens are actually "consuming the dogs, they are actually consuming the cats, they are actually eating the animals of the people that reside there". Mr Muir immediately replied that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no trustworthy files of pet-eating. The former head of state's case have to have struck numerous visitors as peculiar. But bunches of Mr Trump's supporters were primed for it: the claims possessed been circulating in right-wing groups on social media sites, increased through Elon Odor, the manager of X. Just how performed the city happened at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy theory?