.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" 33 mins in to the American presidential debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually readied. During that tiny Ohio community, Mr Trump stated, illegal immigrants are actually "consuming the pet dogs, they're eating the kitties, they're eating the dogs of people who stay there". Mr Muir without delay answered that, according to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no legitimate documents of pet-eating. The past head of state's claim have to possess attacked numerous viewers as unusual. Yet tons of Mr Trump's followers were actually primed for it: the claims possessed been actually circulating in right-wing circles on social media, enhanced by Elon Musk, the proprietor of X. Exactly how did the town come to be at the centre of a conservative conspiracy concept?