.WHEN DONALD TRUMP completed words "Springfield" 33 mins in to the United States governmental debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepared. In that small Ohio city, Mr Trump proclaimed, illegal aliens are "consuming the pets, they're eating the felines, they're consuming the dogs of the people who reside there". Mr Muir quickly replied that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no qualified reports of pet-eating. The past head of state's case should have struck a lot of visitors as peculiar. However bunches of Mr Trump's supporters were primed for it: the accusation had been circulating in conservative circles on social media sites, boosted through Elon Musk, the owner of X. Exactly how carried out the town happened at the facility of a conservative conspiracy theory?