.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered words "Springfield" thirty three moments in to the American presidential debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was readied. Because tiny Ohio city, Mr Trump announced, illegal immigrants are "eating the canines, they are actually eating the cats, they are actually eating the household pets of people that reside there". Mr Muir without delay replied that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were no credible reports of pet-eating. The previous president's case have to have hit lots of audiences as strange. But lots of Mr Trump's fans were keyed for it: the accusation possessed been moving around in right-wing circles on social networking sites, increased through Elon Odor, the manager of X. Just how performed the town happened at the center of a conservative conspiracy theory?