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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How do they know it’s “baseless”? The media looks pretty out of touch to me.
Yup, just like Trump was a racist when he labeled Covid as the China Virus.
Very few people seem to respond to her posts...
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.
I smell ozone
The media is really worked up denying something that has toms of proof just on YouTube alone.
So we have a problem with open borders. Not sure why the media is talking about this issue?
It’s not false. It is absolutely true.
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.
I was being sarcastic in my OP.
*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?”
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”.
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.
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.
Really, do rabbits go “Meow”, or is this just some urban legend? Squirrels do eat nuts and bark, you know....
I’m playing wack- a troll.🤣
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