Donald Trump goes all in on viral anti-immigrant lie
by Gaby Del Valle from The Verge - All Posts on (#6QMTX)
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Less than 30 minutes into the presidential debate, former president Donald Trump brought up a viral racist lie about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio - and repeated it after fact-checkers asserted that it wasn't true.
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," Trump said in response to a question about why he asked Republican legislators to vote against a bipartisan border security bill. After Trump finished his tirade, ABC News moderator David Muir clarified that Springfield's city manager told ABC reports of migrants eating pets were false - but Trump repeated the lie. People on television are saying, My dog was taken and...