.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said words "Springfield" thirty three moments right into the United States presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepped. Because tiny Ohio city, Mr Trump announced, illegal aliens are "consuming the pets, they're eating the cats, they are actually consuming the pets of individuals that live there". Mr Muir without delay replied that, according to Springfield's mayor, there were no legitimate records of pet-eating. The past president's claim need to have struck lots of visitors as unusual. But lots of Mr Trump's followers were keyed for it: the accusation had been actually moving around in right-wing groups on social media, improved through Elon Musk, the owner of X. Exactly how performed the city become at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory?