Donald Trump is not backing off from his baseless claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH, are eating family pets. The former president, in fact, doubled down last night during a town hall event for Univision held in Miami.
Trump made the claim during the ABC News presidential debate last month, despite being fact-checked by co-moderator David Muir that Springfield’s city manager said that there was no evidence that immigrants were eating people’s pets. J.D. Vance repeated the lie, acknowledging on X that the conspiracy theory is a “rumor” while encouraging followers to keep spreading it anyway.
During the Univision event, a Latino Republican voter from Arizona said, speaking in Spanish, “The authorities in Springfield, OH, have more than one time clarified that the Haitians are not eating their cats and their dogs. Nonetheless, you want to revoke the permit they have to legally reside in this country. My question to you, respectfully, is: Do you really believe that these people are eating people’s pets?”
Trump replied, “This was just reported. I was just saying what has been reported. And eating other things too that they are not supposed to be. All I do is report. I was there, and I am going to be there, and we are going to take a look. And I will give you a full report when I do. But that’s been in the newspapers and reported pretty broadly.”
He added, “I will say this as far as Springfield is concerned, because I do know that situation, you have a city of...
Donald Trump is not backing off from his baseless claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH, are eating family pets. The former president, in fact, doubled down last night during a town ha...