.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word “Springfield” 33 minutes right into the United States presidential discussion on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepared. In that little Ohio community, Mr Trump declared, illegal immigrants are “eating the pet dogs, they are actually eating the kitties, they’re eating the family pets of people that live there”. Mr Muir promptly responded that, according to Springfield’s city manager, there were actually no qualified reports of pet-eating.
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