.WHEN DONALD TRUMP uttered the word "Springfield" thirty three mins in to the United States governmental debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. Because tiny Ohio town, Mr Trump declared, illegal immigrants are "eating the canines, they're consuming the felines, they are actually eating the dogs of the people who live there". Mr Muir quickly answered that, according to Springfield's mayor, there were no credible documents of pet-eating. The past head of state's insurance claim have to possess attacked several viewers as bizarre. But lots of Mr Trump's enthusiasts were primed for it: the accusation had been circulating in right-wing circles on social networking sites, boosted through Elon Odor, the manager of X. How performed the city happened at the center of a right-wing conspiracy concept?