.WHEN DONALD TRUMP completed the word "Springfield" 33 mins into the United States presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepped. Because little Ohio town, Mr Trump declared, illegal aliens are actually "consuming the pets, they are actually consuming the pet cats, they are actually eating the family pets of individuals that stay there". Mr Muir immediately answered that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were no credible records of pet-eating. The previous president's claim should possess hit several visitors as bizarre. But lots of Mr Trump's supporters were topped for it: the accusation had been circulating in conservative groups on social networks, enhanced by Elon Odor, the manager of X. How performed the town become at the facility of a conservative conspiracy idea?