.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" 33 moments in to the United States governmental dispute on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. During that tiny Ohio city, Mr Trump announced, illegal immigrants are "consuming the dogs, they're consuming the kitties, they are actually consuming the family pets of individuals who reside there". Mr Muir promptly answered that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were no trustworthy reports of pet-eating. The past president's case should possess attacked several viewers as strange. But bunches of Mr Trump's supporters were keyed for it: the allegation had been moving around in conservative circles on social media sites, improved through Elon Odor, the owner of X. How carried out the town become at the facility of a conservative conspiracy theory?