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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Sorry. Read your post wrong. Skimming, I read it as “It’s false and he pushed it.”
This is an Cincinatti, Ohio News station Report from WKRC: LINK: WKRC-Ohio woman allegedly killed cat and ate it in front of neighbors
Complete with mugshot:
With police report, too.
Of course, the next thing we will hear from this dimwit is that she wasn't Haitian, she was from some other town in the USA, not Haiti. This moron xxqqzz swallows it whole, all the time.
Oh, that guy? He’s just being a fine responsible upstanding soon to be citizen merely bringing that goose to the local animal sanctuary. /s
This is a baseless story. Why post it? I saw actual interviews with eyewitnesses. So it is based on witness testimony but not corroborated.
Wipe your feet, you really stepped in it.
An objective news story would not have "baseless" and "sensationalist" in it. Watch the adjectives and you will know what the writer wants you to think. David Muir did the same thing last night when he spoke of "false claims" that the 2020 election had been stolen.
When your posts all go in a single direction, without a flag to denote sarcasm, people are fully justified to see your professed sarcasm after the fact as untrue.
I saw that vid. Just like that the woman clammed up as if “no speaka de English”. 😖🤬🤬
Learn what sarcasm is you whacky troll Hunter you.
Got a link?
Sorry I left out the sarcasm flag. That is how they are presenting it that it shows he is a right wing kook, like whore Kamala implied. I mean if you Google “Trump dogs”, you find like 40 stories fact checking and saying it is ridiculous. I replied to posts a few days ago about the cats and ducks.
Per the local Canton newspaper, she is reportedly a Canton, OH resident, not Haitian. Regardless, it’s a charlie foxtrot.
Ok, sorry.
Laura Loomer may have been pushing it. Not Trump.
You’re not smart. Obama pushed Romney’s buttons and he didn’t react. Hoe did that work out? Bush didn’t react, let them define and defame him and he left office with 25% support. The only reason why you guys think not reacting is the way to wing is because you’re taking the lead of the media. They tell you not to bring up personal attacks, dont be mean to Kamala and dont react to her calling you a rapist. Someone who listens to that nonsense wouldn’t deserve to be President. Trump is a real person, that’s his brand and that’s who he is. To abandon that now at the suggestion of the MSM would be ridiculous.
REporter Christopher Rufo on twitter is offering $5000 for anyone with proof of subhuman haitian scumbags eating pets—befrore last night’s debate.
Only time I was in Ohio besides merely travelling through, I reported to the nearest person in the neighborhood that there was a grievously injured cat (in its death throes) in the road.... and the person tried to go eat it. So, that’s a wierd coincidence. Didn’t seem like an obvious immigrant.
His name is a zot sound?
You need only listen to “conservative “ and “independent” (media who does nothing but react to MSM stories for clicks) is reacting today to understand why the whole country can cower in place at a “cold” and why it will happen again and again.
https://youtu.be/OpB6IRUXxBQ?si=H9NQEW5NPlvUytj_
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