Former president repeats false claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating pets
Donald Trump’s false claim that immigrants in Ohio are abducting pets and eating them during Tuesday’s presidential debate was quickly slapped down by ABC News moderator David Muir.
While on the debate stage in Philadelphia, the former president asserted that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were “eating dogs” and “eating the cats” while pushing his anti-immigration policies.
“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,” the former president said.
“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,” the former president claimed.
As he spoke, Harris looked in disbelief at the former president before laughing.
It’s not just a false claim. It’s an old racist trope against Haitians. It was a slur used on national TV.
Lol. This old bitch is getting owned by his own insane base. Fucking hilarious.
Love that Kamala laughed at this in her response.
Women laughing bad!!!
They literally believe that. Like, I’ve kind of fallen into a hole watching this one right wing cartoonist just to see how crazy the crazy gets, and he leans hard on Harris having a somewhat annoying sounding laugh that he turns up to 11.
Trump is too psychotic to laugh at all, or genuinely smile, for that matter. The closest he gets is that goofy smug smirk.
Women can’t laugh. Hillary got the same shit. And black women especially can’t be mad. It’s BS for sure.
At first I was annoyed that the moderators kept letting him speak out of turn.
Then, when he was just putting foot in mouth again and again, I couldn’t wait for him to talk again.
Never prevent your enemies from making a mistake.
Reminded me of Obama’s classic “please proceed, governor” in the Romney debate.
You could tell from Trump’s body language the moment Harris insulted his crowd sizes he was gonna lose it. Best laugh I’ve had in a while about this campaign.
As Sun Tzu put it, never interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake.
I so hope you’re right, but so far whatever twisted version of reality we’re in has them eating out of his hand
“Given sufficient force, pigs can fly just fine”
We’ll soon see what it looks like when billions of dollars of force are applied to propelling a thoroughly unaerodynamic pig into the air.
Homeboy has lost the plot, it’s well past time for bed, grandpa
Don’t you think [he] looks tired…?
He looks unwell
ZOMG BLACK PPL ARE GOING TO EAT UR CAT!!!1!1!
I heard the illegals are Hannibal Lecter now. And some are sharks with batteries.
Racist people have been repeating this story long before trump ever took office. My father, decades ago, was always telling me this is why the family dogs would dissapear. Apparently, once a year, some gang (of non haitians) would come to our rural area, and steal the neighborhood pets.
Of course, our dogs would get hit by cars or shot, but it would happen to coincide with less barking of neighboring dogs (nah, it wasnt cause our wandering dog wasnt bothering them anymore /s) or another neighbor complaining their dog was missing, too.
I always thought it was the most ridiculous thing I ever heard, much less how the logistics worked out, but the story has been around for a very long time, even if some of the details have changed. These jerks have just co-opted another racist troupe to try to pander to their base.
Her disbelief at him as he said that is my favorite part of the debate, hands down.
I called it a while ago.
Nothing gets under Trump’s skin more than being laughed at by a woman.
He wants to be this big scary bully, and laughing at someone like that is the worse you can do to them. I haven’t watched the whole thing yet. But from Daily Show Kamala just alternated between that and looks of disbelief
The Independent - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for The Independent:
MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: Medium - Factual Reporting: Mixed - United Kingdom
Wikipedia about this sourceSearch topics on Ground.News
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/vance-haitian-immigrants-pets-police-debunked-b2610042.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ohio-pets-springfield-debate-fact-check-b2610589.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-harris-debate-2024-election-b2610586.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-harris-presidential-debate-live-updates-time-tonight-b2609991.html