.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" 33 minutes right into the American governmental debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was readied. In that small Ohio town, Mr Trump proclaimed, illegal aliens are "consuming the canines, they are actually eating the pussy-cats, they are actually consuming the pets of the people who reside there". Mr Muir immediately responded that, depending on to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no legitimate reports of pet-eating. The previous head of state's insurance claim must possess hit lots of audiences as unusual. But great deals of Mr Trump's supporters were keyed for it: the allegation possessed been actually moving around in conservative groups on social networking sites, enhanced by Elon Musk, the proprietor of X. Just how did the city become at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy concept?