The baseless, blatantly racist rumor about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, which sprung from social-media posts from a neo-Nazi group, and was amplified by a flustered Donald Trump at Tuesday’s presidential debate, led to bomb threats closing down Springfield City Hall and several Springfield city schools on Friday.
This is the America that we now live in, thanks to Trump and your MAGA neighbors.
“We are committed to the safety and well-being of our community and take all threats to public safety with the utmost seriousness. We are currently collaborating with the Dayton office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine the origin of these email threats,” said Karen Graves, a spokesperson for the City of Springfield, which is having to deal with one emailed threat that said bombs had been planted in the homes of the city’s mayor and other city officials, and a second email that said bombs had been placed at City Hall, a high school, a middle school, two elementary schools and a DMV office.
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These are the wages of the latest political sin committed by Trump, who, embarrassed several times in exchanges in the debate with Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris, went full-out senile racist grandpa to try to get out of a discussion of immigration policy that wasn’t going his way.
“What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country, and look at what’s happening to the towns all over the United States, and a lot of towns don’t want to talk, not going to, Aurora or Springfield, a lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it,” Trump said, already not making sense.
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame,” Trump said.
The mention of Aurora, the one in Colorado, is a reference to another thoroughly debunked rumor, that Venezuelan gangs have taken over the city of 400,000 people, that was started by a MAGA member of the city council there who connected a large gathering of Venezuelan immigrants on the night of the election in that country in July somehow with gang activity, and then added fuel to the fire with the spurious claim that the city’s decision to evict 300 people from an apartment complex was also the result of immigrant gang activity.
The city’s Republican mayor, Mike Coffman, released a statement yesterday to reinforce that “the overstated claims fueled by social media and through select news organizations are simply not true,” which, all that’s going to do is get the bomb threats coming his way now, given how this MAGA gang works.
So, Aurora says, nothing that the president said is happening here is actually happening here.
We’ve heard the same from city leaders in Springfield.
The truth is of no consequence to Trump.
ABC News reporter Terry Moran asked Trump specifically about the Springfield pets-being-eaten rumor at a press conference that the ex-president held today at one of his golf courses, mainly to show off the golf course, continuing with the theme of the last nine years, that this whole politics thing, to Trump, is nothing more than a money grab.
“The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, the police chief, the Republican governor of Ohio, have all debunked this story about people eating pets. And now there are bomb threats at schools and kids being evacuated. Why do you still spread this false story?” Moran asked.
“No, no, no, the real threat is what’s happening at our border,” said Trump, again deflecting.
“Because you have thousands of people being killed by illegal migrants coming in and also dying. You have women dying as they come up. They’re coming up in large groups. We call it a caravan. I think I came up with that name, but it’s really, what it is, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 people, and you have large numbers of women being killed in those caravans coming up to this country, and then when they get here, they can go into the country, and they end up being sex slaves and everything else.
“Those are your real problems, not the problem that you’re talking,” said Trump, who later in the ad for his golf course disguised as a press conference pledged to deport the Haitians – who are here legally, incidentally – to Venezuela.
If you can make any sense out of any of this, you win the pony.
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