.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said words "Springfield" 33 moments right into the United States governmental controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was readied. In that little Ohio city, Mr Trump declared, illegal immigrants are "eating the pets, they're eating the pet cats, they're consuming the family pets of the people who live there". Mr Muir without delay responded that, according to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no trustworthy reports of pet-eating. The past head of state's case must have struck many viewers as strange. But lots of Mr Trump's enthusiasts were actually keyed for it: the claims had been circulating in conservative groups on social networks, enhanced through Elon Odor, the proprietor of X. How did the city come to be at the facility of a right-wing conspiracy concept?