Posted on 09/14/2024 5:24:55 PM PDT by xxqqzz
hile Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets in front of millions of viewers at Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Johnson Salomon, a Haitian man who moved to Springfield in 2020, was watching cartoons with his kids before putting them to bed.
He got a text from a friend telling him to turn on the debate. When he saw the headlines about what the former president and Republican nominee in November’s election had said, he was in total shock.
“This was a false claim. I couldn’t believe that such a high official could make such a claim,” Salomon said.
‘They’re eating the cats’: Trump rambles falsely about immigrants in debate
Trump’s running mate JD Vance, Elon Musk and prominent Ohio Republicans had already spread the false rumors, lying about how Haitian immigrants had been killing and eating people’s pets in Springfield, a blue-collar town of 60,000 people in western Ohio. But the rumors, leaving Salomon and other Haitians in fear of being targeted for violence and discrimination, didn’t start with them.
They were initially spread online in August on social platforms used by far-right extremists and by Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi hate group.
Springfield officials and police say they have received no credible reports of pets being harmed by members of the immigrant community, instead suggesting the story may have originated in Canton, Ohio, where an American woman with no known connection to Haiti was arrested in August for allegedly stomping a cat to death and eating the animal.
Both Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, have repeated the unfounded claim that immigrants in Ohio are eating pets.
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Just say NO to drugs.
Wait til it happens to you.
I guess you haven’t learned the lesson these past nine years that everything the liberals label as disinformation from Trump, actually turns out to be true.
They eat cats and dogs in Haiti. Why wouldn't they eat them in Springfield?
Do you often read The Guardian?
Beyond Stupid
Really makes ya wonder: Just how did England survive this long?
Guess all the smart people got dead in the two nasty little squabbles back some decades ago
I wonder if the Guardian has any idea how long they can push back the truth on this story and what the end result will be for their credibility?
No, but it seemed the most extreme about neo-Nazis, etc. Thought people here would appreciate it.
We need a Haitian spokesman to come out and declare, “We don’t eat just any white man’s pet that wanders into our neighborhood.”
Damn right, cats and dogs are no longer pets there. They are a food source.
Haitians are known in their culture for eating cats and dogs during lean times. It is happening right now IN Haiti according to Canadian sources.
I live a little over 20 miles from Springfield and the pet/geese eating stories are true. What is worse are the horrible Haitian drivers.
They apparently give them money for cars and temporary drivers licenses without passing the test. Probably only a small percentage of people have cars in Haiti.
So THAT’s going to be the spin. Haitians are HELPING Springfield. Alrighty then. 🙄
this is the earlier xxqqzz story
2024 Election Trump pushes baseless claim about immigrants ‘eating the pets’
That Trump is a real kook. He really made a fool of himself with that one. There are a zillion stories like this.
1 posted on 9/11/2024, 7:45:52 PM by xxqqzz
That number is incorrect. You have to add two zeros to the 200.
Springfield resident, James, says the stories are true. He covers a lot more than cats and geese.
Here's another resident echoing the same problems.
Springfield, Ohio resident “living in a nightmare“ Rumble 2:10
Neither one of them look like neo-Nazis to me.
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