.WHEN DONALD TRUMP completed words "Springfield" 33 mins right into the American presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. In that little Ohio city, Mr Trump announced, illegal aliens are "eating the pet dogs, they are actually eating the cats, they're consuming the dogs of the people that live there". Mr Muir without delay replied that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were no credible records of pet-eating. The past head of state's case should have hit lots of audiences as unusual. Yet tons of Mr Trump's fans were actually keyed for it: the charge possessed been moving around in conservative circles on social networks, boosted through Elon Musk, the owner of X. Exactly how carried out the town become at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy concept?