.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" thirty three moments into the United States presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually readied. During that small Ohio city, Mr Trump stated, illegal aliens are actually "eating the pets, they are actually consuming the cats, they are actually consuming the pet dogs of people that live there". Mr Muir quickly responded that, depending on to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no credible records of pet-eating. The past president's insurance claim must have struck a lot of visitors as strange. Yet lots of Mr Trump's followers were primed for it: the claims had been moving around in right-wing circles on social networking sites, enhanced by Elon Odor, the manager of X. How performed the community come to be at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy concept?