The Republican candidate for the American presidency, Donald Trumpon Tuesday accused immigrants arriving in the United States of eating the dogs and cats of citizens living in border towns, in front of a stunned Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival in the November 5 elections.
“Many cities don’t want to talk about it because they’re embarrassed. In Springfield, the people who came eat dogs, they eat cats!They eat the animals of the people who live there! And that’s what’s happening in our country and it’s a shame,” the former president said, echoing racist rhetoric.
Trump and his running mate, potential vice presidential candidate JD Vance, spread false information about Haitian immigrants and “caused chaos” in an Ohio town by claiming illegal immigrants were kidnapping neighborhood pets to eat.
Local authorities have already denied these rumours.which spread like wildfire on social networks, particularly on X, where Elon Musk himselfthe billionaire owner of the platform, helped spread this hoaxas indicated Efe.
ABC News host David Muir himself quickly stepped in to correct the former president.: “I just want to clarify this. You mention Springfield, Ohio and ABC News contacted the city administrator. “He told us there were no credible reports of specific allegations of pets being harmed or abused by individuals within the immigrant community,” he said.
