The Federalist
Giving these stories fair attention was never the point — even though there is more than enough evidence to suggest locals are telling the truth.
On Tuesday, PolitiFact declared Republican claims of Haitian migrants “eating the pets” in the blue-collar community of Springfield, Ohio, the “lie of the year.”
“With a brazen disregard for facts, Donald Trump and his running mate repeatedly peddled a created story that in Springfield, Ohio, Haitian immigrants were eating pet dogs and cats,” PolitiFact reported. “With this claim, amplified before 67 million television viewers in his debate against Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump took his anti-migrant, the U.S. border-is-out-of-control campaign agenda to a new level.”
Naturally, PolitiFact continued to link the allegations of Haitian pet-hunting to white nationalism.
“The earliest rumors PolitiFact found of Haitians stealing and eating pets and geese came in August amid a neo-Nazi group’s protest,” the group reported.
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