.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" 33 moments into the American presidential argument on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually readied. During that little Ohio town, Mr Trump announced, illegal immigrants are actually "eating the pets, they are actually eating the pussy-cats, they are actually eating the household pets of individuals that live there". Mr Muir without delay responded that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no legitimate files of pet-eating. The past president's insurance claim need to have struck lots of viewers as strange. But tons of Mr Trump's followers were keyed for it: the allegation had been circulating in right-wing groups on social media, improved by Elon Odor, the manager of X. How carried out the town become at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy theory?