Around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, tens of millions of television viewers watched as Donald Trump spread an unsubstantiated and racially charged rumor running wild online. “In Springfield they’re eating dogs,” ...
Vice President JD Vance doubled down on a debunked conspiracy theory, previously deemed racist, about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating pets. The most recent comments were quick to spark ...
But during the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump specifically mentioned Springfield, Ohio, the town at the center of the claims, saying that immigrants were taking over the city.