Former President Donald Trump went on a wild rant about Haitian immigrants supposedly eating dogs in Springfield, Ohio, during the presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump’s unhinged claim was a play off his running mate Sen. JD Vance making a false claim about immigrants eating cats.
In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.
This is the moment when Trump left ZERO doubt that his mind is in a state of rapid deterioration: “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” pic.twitter.com/5T5oKxxyZz
Trump was debunked on the spot by ABC News host David Muir.
MUIR: I just want to clarify here, you bring up Springfield, Ohio. And ABC News did reach out to the city manager there. He told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community —
TRUMP: Well, I’ve seen people on television.
MUIR: Let me just say here this …
TRUMP: The people on television say my dog was taken and used for food. So maybe he said that and maybe that’s a good thing to say for a city manager.
MUIR: I’m not taking this from television. I’m taking it from the city manager.
TRUMP: But the people on television say their dog was eaten by the people that went there.
MUIR: Again, the Springfield city manager says there’s no evidence of that.
TRUMP: We’ll find out.
The Springfield News-Sun reports the racist rumor started with a post to a Facebook group for residents of the Ohio town.
