.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" 33 moments into the United States presidential debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepped. Because tiny Ohio town, Mr Trump proclaimed, illegal aliens are actually "consuming the canines, they are actually eating the felines, they are actually consuming the dogs of the people that stay there". Mr Muir quickly replied that, according to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no credible files of pet-eating. The former president's case must have attacked several visitors as strange. However great deals of Mr Trump's enthusiasts were primed for it: the allegation possessed been moving around in right-wing groups on social media sites, enhanced by Elon Musk, the proprietor of X. How carried out the community become at the facility of a conservative conspiracy theory?