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2024 Election Trump pushes baseless claim about immigrants 'eating the pets'
NBC ^ | Sep 10, 2024 | Daniel Arkin and David Ingram

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
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To: xxqqzz


Yeah, his goose is cooked.



911 call

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/new-police-call-audio-from-springfield-ohio-appears-to-confirm-haitian-goose-story/ar-AA1qoMrs
21 posted on 09/11/2024 4:53:37 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: xxqqzz

How do they know it’s “baseless”? The media looks pretty out of touch to me.


22 posted on 09/11/2024 4:53:49 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: italianquaker

Yup, just like Trump was a racist when he labeled Covid as the China Virus.


23 posted on 09/11/2024 4:53:50 PM PDT by Chgogal (To paraphrase Biden: You vote Democrat? Then you ain't smart. )
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To: cowboyusa

Very few people seem to respond to her posts...


24 posted on 09/11/2024 4:53:50 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: cowboyusa; xxqqzz

xxqqzz has a posting history that fully displays the bent of this person. Just do a search. Never saw or heard of this turd before it began posting about Trump.


25 posted on 09/11/2024 4:53:52 PM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: xxqqzz

I smell ozone


26 posted on 09/11/2024 4:54:33 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you"e)
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To: xxqqzz

The media is really worked up denying something that has toms of proof just on YouTube alone.


27 posted on 09/11/2024 4:55:14 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: xxqqzz

So we have a problem with open borders. Not sure why the media is talking about this issue?


28 posted on 09/11/2024 4:55:25 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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29 posted on 09/11/2024 4:55:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Lisbon1940

It’s not false. It is absolutely true.


30 posted on 09/11/2024 4:56:15 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: xxqqzz

Another unit (nbc) of the propaganda arm of The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate throws out some propaganda.

Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart, mind and soul.


31 posted on 09/11/2024 4:56:33 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: xxqqzz

https://x.com/CubanOnlyTrump/status/1833722316276035899/video/1

32 posted on 09/11/2024 4:56:55 PM PDT by McGruff (Ask everyone, Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: rlmorel

I was being sarcastic in my OP.


33 posted on 09/11/2024 4:57:13 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: Gary from Dayton

*Remember when they said he was a kook after he tweeted that Obama had tapped his wires.*
WHEN was it found out to be true?

*Trump has been right about everything. I suspect this will be found to be true also.*

Both of you-use your heads! He was wrong and a kook all the way until AFTER the truth came out and by then it didn’t matter. The damage was done.

Harry Reid: “He lost didn’t he?”


34 posted on 09/11/2024 4:57:55 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: rlmorel

I have been observing this too about xxqqzz. And when I first read his comment I thought he was serious. But I think in this case he might be sarcastic. “Only a million other sources too”.


35 posted on 09/11/2024 4:58:07 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: MeanWestTexan

My main man! Yeah, that’s the stuff.
They probably stuff the cats down their pants, not wanting to raise the ire of childless cat ladies who welcomed them.


36 posted on 09/11/2024 4:58:23 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: xxqqzz

I didn’t watch the debate so had no idea. The eating pets thing is all the kids at high school are talking about.

Win.


37 posted on 09/11/2024 4:59:04 PM PDT by nicollo (Remember when we had to close tags?)
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To: Gary from Dayton

Really, do rabbits go “Meow”, or is this just some urban legend? Squirrels do eat nuts and bark, you know....


38 posted on 09/11/2024 4:59:33 PM PDT by alloysteel (I've told people a million times, "Don't exaggerate.")
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

I’m playing wack- a troll.🤣


39 posted on 09/11/2024 4:59:35 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHENo, R GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: escapefromboston
Haitians eat cats and dogs in their own country since its very poor.

I remember years ago, TRUE stories about Haitians in Haiti, mixing dirt with dough to make cookies, because the dough would not be enough to fill their stomachs. So, I wouldn't doubt that dogs and cats stories being true. They came her with nothing and still have nothing, other than what they can find roaming free in the streets.
40 posted on 09/11/2024 4:59:47 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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