.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" thirty three mins into the American presidential debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually readied. During that little Ohio city, Mr Trump stated, illegal immigrants are "consuming the pets, they are actually consuming the cats, they are actually eating the animals of people that live there". Mr Muir immediately responded that, according to Springfield's mayor, there were no legitimate documents of pet-eating. The previous president's case should have attacked a lot of viewers as strange. But considerable amounts of Mr Trump's supporters were primed for it: the charge had been circulating in right-wing circles on social networking sites, boosted through Elon Musk, the proprietor of X. Just how performed the town come to be at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy concept?