.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" thirty three moments into the American presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepped. In that tiny Ohio city, Mr Trump announced, illegal aliens are actually "consuming the dogs, they are actually eating the pet cats, they are actually consuming the family pets of people that reside there". Mr Muir without delay responded that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no credible files of pet-eating. The former president's case have to possess struck several viewers as strange. However considerable amounts of Mr Trump's supporters were keyed for it: the allegation possessed been actually moving around in right-wing groups on social networking sites, increased through Elon Musk, the manager of X. How performed the community happened at the facility of a conservative conspiracy idea?