Posted on 09/11/2024 4:45:52 PM PDT by xxqqzz
Former President Donald Trump, during Tuesday’s presidential debate, repeated a baseless and sensationalist claim about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating dogs and other pets.
"They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats," Trump said during an answer to a question about immigration. "They're eating the pets of the people that live there, and this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame."
Trump's answer was among the most extraordinary of the first 30 minutes of the debate: a former U.S. president spreading an internet rumor — one labeled by some of his critics as racist — in front of an audience of millions of Americans. The comment illustrated the rapid spread of misinformation in today's media ecosystem.
David Muir, the ABC News anchor co-moderating the debate, immediately fact-checked Trump's claims, saying that the city manager in Springfield, Ohio, told the network there had been no credible reports of pets being harmed, injured or abused by people in the city's immigrant community.
Baseless rumors have spread on social media for days claiming that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are abducting and eating pets. Most of the rumors involve Springfield, which has a large number of Haitian immigrants, but police there released a statement Monday knocking down the stories and saying they hadn’t seen any documented examples.
“There have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community,” the police said in a statement.
Republicans including Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, have pointed to the claims as evidence that immigrants are causing chaos. Vance, though, hedged in a statement on X earlier Tuesday, saying, “It’s possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false.”
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He’s over the target
Yep just like the laptop story
I love how Trump can get the media to focus on something people had no idea could be happening.
{sniff! sniff!}
He could have said there are ‘more than a few’ confirmed reports of this. Then let the people who don’t know of this figure it out. Trump is not smart. He reacts. She pushed his button and it worked.
Remember when they said he was a kook after he tweeted that Obama had tapped his wires.
Except I read the earlier stories and even saw the video of a citizen complaining.
The town is overrun with 40,000 Haitians. So are we supposed to like that if the pet story isn’t true?
Is he right? Yes.
Only a kook would fault him for saying it in public.
Lol he’ll be fine
So I guess being overrun by illegal aliens must be OK then?
It’s false that he pushed it. He just mentioned it once.
NBC branch of dems minitru. Did not read.
I have seen pictures of these primates carrying Canadian geese they gakked near an Ohio pond.
You can walk right up to those canuck feathered rats and wring their necks, but no one does because not 3rd world, yet.
It wouldn’t surprise anyone they are harvesting feral cats, more power to em.
Trump has been right about everything. I suspect this will be found to be true also.
Nice to see you here, I have been on here 16 years and I have never seen your name. Slink away troll
It might not be true but it isn’t baseless.
I tend to believe its true since Haitians eat cats and dogs in their own country since its very poor.
The Springfield police have arrested a Haitian for doing that. Obviously police are crazy right wing conspirators
Bfl
So you’re calling the citizens of Springfield liars?
Baseless’.
There’s that word again.
‘They spied on my campaign’ was one of his first ‘whoppers’
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