.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" 33 moments into the American governmental debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepped. During that little Ohio community, Mr Trump declared, illegal aliens are "eating the canines, they're consuming the pussy-cats, they're consuming the pet dogs of the people who live there". Mr Muir quickly responded that, depending on to Springfield's city manager, there were no qualified reports of pet-eating. The past president's case need to have attacked several customers as strange. But great deals of Mr Trump's enthusiasts were actually topped for it: the charge had been moving around in conservative circles on social media, improved by Elon Odor, the proprietor of X. Just how performed the town become at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy theory?