Trump Pushes Right-Wing Conspiracy in Debate Against Harris

Answering the perennial question “Are you better off today than you were four years ago,” Donald Trump invoked a viral right-wing conspiracy theory about immigrants stealing and eating family pets.

And thus began his high-stakes debate in Philadelphia Tuesday night against Kamala Harris. Trump began by talking about tariffs when he suddenly veered to undocumented immigrants.

He mentioned Springfield, Ohio, the city that this week became the center of an outlandish right-wing conspiracy theory about illegal immigrants kidnapping and eating pet cats and ducks.

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