Donald Trump brought up a false claim that Haitian immigrants are abducting and eating the family pets of Ohio residents during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, continuing to insist that the bizarre conspiracy theory was true even after a debate moderator fact-checked him.
Trump’s unhinged rant came in response to the question “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Although he opened by discussing tariffs, the former president soon veered wildly off-topic after he invoked illegal immigration.
“A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it,” he insisted. “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.”
