Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has done it again. At a campaign event in Springfield, Ohio, he once again spread hoaxes: “Residents are reporting that immigrants They remove the geese from the city. Even their pets when they walk them.”
One lie, another, viralized at breakneck speed on the networks. Democrats fired back during vice presidential candidate Tim Waltz’s final speech: “We don’t eat cats! We don’t eat cats!”
But Trump’s signature lie is scaring the Haitian population of the Ohio city. “20,000 illegal Haitian immigrants have arrived in the city to destroy your lifestyle”said the former president.
Accusations that have made life very complicated for migrants. Marc, a Haitian living in Springfield, has had to quit your job because of harassment and says that her two children are victims of harassment: “I had to move to another neighborhood. I was afraid for them. “They were very traumatized.”. And he assures that the situation is only getting worse: “I had to go to school, they are threatened by the teachers.” In fact, he does not show his face for fear of reprisals.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre warned: “This is an attempt to destroy communities, and puts their lives in danger.”
This is not the first time Trump has made these smears against the Ohio city’s immigrant population. During the debate against Kamala Harris, he noted: “In Springfield, the people who came are eat cats. “They eat animals”. Words that had consequences, two schools and four government buildings were evicted in the last few hours.
Jean-Pierre reiterates: “We are aware of information indicating a bomb alert at the city hall.” Signals which, far from being memes circulating on the Internet, have impact in real life.
