.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" thirty three moments right into the American presidential discussion on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was readied. In that tiny Ohio city, Mr Trump declared, illegal immigrants are "eating the dogs, they're eating the pussy-cats, they're eating the household pets of people that live there". Mr Muir promptly replied that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were no credible files of pet-eating. The past president's case need to have struck many visitors as peculiar. However tons of Mr Trump's followers were actually topped for it: the allegation possessed been circulating in conservative circles on social media sites, increased by Elon Musk, the manager of X. Exactly how carried out the city become at the centre of a conservative conspiracy concept?