.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered words "Springfield" 33 mins right into the American presidential argument on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepped. In that tiny Ohio town, Mr Trump proclaimed, illegal immigrants are actually "eating the canines, they are actually consuming the pussy-cats, they're eating the animals of individuals who reside there". Mr Muir quickly answered that, according to Springfield's mayor, there were no qualified documents of pet-eating. The previous head of state's insurance claim should possess attacked many visitors as unusual. But great deals of Mr Trump's enthusiasts were primed for it: the charge had been moving around in right-wing groups on social networking sites, enhanced by Elon Odor, the manager of X. How performed the city come to be at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy concept?