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misinfo vs disinfo?

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[## STEVE BANNON: "NEW YORK'S A FOREIGN CITY. GO LOOK AT THE KNICKS PARADE."

06/24/26 11:39 AM EDT](https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-new-yorks-foreign-city-go-look-knicks-parade)

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[## MEGYN KELLY REACTS TO SUPREME COURT TPS DECISION: “GO BACK TO FUCKING HAITI”

06/25/26 1:52 PM EDT](https://www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/megyn-kelly-reacts-supreme-court-tps-decision-go-back-fucking-haiti)

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sprINGFIELD, Ohio —

This week's national news cycle has been dominated by an unexpected, surprising and rather close-to-home story. According to claims being made, Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing neighborhood pets so that they could carve them up and eat them.

However, despite backers of the claim being unable to point to any specific case of this actually happening, the claims still managed to spread like wildfire both locally in southwest Ohio and across the country as a whole.

So, where did this claim come from? The answer appears to lie with Springfield resident Erika Lee.

Lee, 35, recently sat down in an interview with NBC News about her role in spreading the false claim. “It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” she told the network Friday.

Lee had, just a few days earlier, posted in the Facebook group "Springfield Ohio Crime and Information."

"Warning to all about our beloved pets & those around us!!" she wrote.

"My neighbor informed me that her daughters friend had lost her cat. She checked pages, kennels, asked around, etc. One day she came home from work, as soon as she stepped out of her car, looked towards a neighbors house, where Haitians live, & saw her cat hanging from a branch, like you'd do a deer for butchering, & they were carving it up to eat. I've been told they are doing this to dogs, they have been doing it at snyder park with the ducks & geese, as I was told that last bit by Rangers & police. Please keep a close eye on these animals"

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The post by Erika Lee that is believed to have started the unsubstantiated rumor that Haitian migrants were abducting and eating local animals.

Within just days, the claim that Lee had heard from her neighbor would be amplified on a national debate stage to an audience of 67 million people.

“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs,” former President Donald Trump said in his Tuesday debate against Kamala Harris. “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.”

Earlier that morning, Trump's running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, also amplified the claim to his 1.9 million X followers while acknowledging at the same time that he could not prove the merit of the claims.

"In the last several weeks, my office has received many inquiries from actual residents of Springfield who've said their neighbors' pets or local wildlife were abducted by Haitian migrants," he wrote on X. "It's possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false."

Vance then went on to attack the Haitian migrants living in Springfield by accusing them of a litany of complaints that ranged from being the cause of a local rise in communicable diseases, causing a death in the community, and inflating rent in the city.

He followed his post up with another one shortly afterward, writing, "In short, don't let the crybabies in the media dissuade you, fellow patriots. Keep the cat memes flowing."

Lee herself never imagined that her post would ever get the traction that it did, and expressed regret in her interview with NBC at the harm that her post caused.

“I’m not a racist,” she said through heavy emotion, adding that her daughter is half Black and she herself is mixed race and a member of the LGBTQ community. “Everybody seems to be turning it into that, and that was not my intent.”

Lee said that she has pulled her daughter out of school and is now worried about her safety with so much attention on her family. She said she was also concerned for the safety of the Haitian community, which she did not intend to antagonize.

“I feel for the Haitian community,” she said. “If I was in the Haitians’ position, I’d be terrified, too, worried that somebody’s going to come after me because they think I’m hurting something that they love and that, again, that’s not what I was trying to do.”

Despite the claims continuing to remain incapable of being substantiated with any specific case of this actually happening in Springfield, Trump still doesn't appear willing to give up on the claim. At a press conference in California on Friday, Trump declined the chance to walk back his claim when asked by a reporter, and earlier in the press conference, he said that he might make an appearance in Springfield in the future to talk about the influx of Haitian migrants that the city has seen.

The post, and the fact that most everyone in the country has now heard of its substance, appears to be a powerful testament to the speed with which misinformation is capable of spreading on social media.

“I didn’t think it would ever get past Springfield," Lee said.

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Far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been a highly divisive figure in Lone Star State politics, often drawing vehement criticism not only from Democrats, but also from fellow Republicans. Nonetheless, Paxton survived an impeachment trial in the Texas State Senate, where he was acquitted on 16 articles. And the Donald Trump ally hasn't become any less combative.

Paxton, a Baptist who embraces a severe brand of Christian fundamentalism, is known for picking fights with churches he considers impure. And his latest religious target, according to Chron.com reporter Eric Killelea, is a church in Austin that helps the homeless.

Killelea reports that on Tuesday, November 26, Paxton announced a lawsuit against Austin's Sunrise Community Church in response to their activities on behalf of the city's homeless.

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The Texas attorney general declared, "By operating a taxpayer-funded drug paraphernalia giveaway next to an elementary school, this organization is threatening students' health and safety and unjustly worsening daily life for every single resident of the neighborhood. We will shut this unlawful nuisance behavior down."

In Austin, Sunrise operates a nonprofit called the Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center.

Paxton, in the lawsuit, describes the church as a "magnet" for people with drug problems and alleges that the Navigation Center encourages them to commit crimes.

The lawsuit alleges, "Sunrise homeless clients break into residents' homes. They menace residents with machetes. They routinely urinate and defecate in the streets. They masturbate in public, while trying to grab passing women. They wake up residents with high-pitched screams in the middle of the night."

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According to the Sunrise Community Church, however, the Navigation Center has helped many homeless Texans overcome homelessness.

Killelea reports, "Sunrise Community Church, which is part of the Reformed Church in America — a generally liberal denomination within the Protestant faith — has described the Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center as the largest provider of homelessness services in Travis County. The Center, founded in 2015, provides meals, showers and computer access to people experiencing homelessness, per reporting by the Austin American-Statesman's Skye Seipp. The church claims to have helped more than 4275 people move into housing through the ministry.

he is getting rich and has politiical pwr by doing this

September 27, 2024, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble

CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): The Harris-Biden regime, they are stuffing foreigners in the reddest communities across the country, in small town red America, I think partially as revenge. Blake might not agree with this, but I think that they get, like, off on this sinister, like, we're gonna go send the Haitians into red America.

BLAKE NEFF (CO-HOST): Maybe a bit of that. Maybe a bit of that.

KIRK: I think there's an element there. You can't convince me. I have no evidence of that, but it's just gut instinct. I'm not gonna get into what states can do to resist this yet because I wanna win the election and do this properly through the federal government. If we lose in November, it's gonna get very, very messy. I'm just gonna be honest. Like, it's gonna get messy of states being —

NEFF: Especially if they start packing the courts, then you're you really have to start thinking, like, OK. What are we gonna do about, like, this truly out of control wants it all —

KIRK: Do we have a country at this point?

NEFF: Yeah.

KIRK: And I don't wanna get there yet, Emily. But, Emily, just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night — it's only gonna get worse if — unless Donald Trump wins. A new report from Fox News shows that across the border, 13,000 people convicted of murder, 15,000 people convicted of rape on the non-detained list — meaning they're currently roaming free around our country. So right now, roaming free on the interior of the United States are 13,000 convicted murderers, 15,000 convicted rapists. And they're just — they're having a field day, and they're coming for your daughter next.

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KIRK: I want you to understand this. That means that they're coming across the border, they run a background check, or someone knows, and then they say, just have fun. That's what that means. That means that they — we know who they are, and then we just release them into the interior and say —

NEFF: It just shocks me, like, the level of control you can have over media narrative that. Like, you know, The New York Times or whoever can blow this off. 13,000 homicide convictions just roaming the US as an elective policy choice.

KIRK: And the election is close. I mean, the election is close. It's very close. And, it — again, there was a poll that just showed up here. Arizona women voters, favor Kamala Harris 52%, 43%. And that does not include the 2 million gotaways. And since those are the border jumpers who avoid border encounters, it's safe to conclude the proportion of convicted criminals is even higher than that 2 million plus of them. Thank you for being a member, and stay safe in Alabama, and pray Trump wins, or else things are gonna get really bad.@@ They're gonna get even worse. There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama, and they will become your masters.

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Colorado media are fighting against the right-wing smear that a Venezuelan gang has “taken over” the city of Aurora

Written by Casey Wexler & Sage Hodil

Published 09/27/24

Right-wing media outlets have turned an uncertain story that a Venezuelan gang “commandeered” apartments in Aurora, Colorado, into a lie that gangs are “taking over” and have fully “overrun” the city of 390,000 people.

A right-wing claim about an apartment complex ballooned to smear a whole city

* ## Colorado media debunked that gangs are “taking over” the whole city

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Local officials and residents around the country keep having to debunk right-wing media hoaxes about immigrants

09/26/24 mma

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In the hours after far-right U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins posted a racist tweet attacking Haitian immigrants, top Republicans including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, moved to protect their fellow Louisiana Congressman.

Zeteo media correspondent Justin Baragona posted a screenshot of Higgin’s widely-condemned tweet, which read: “Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters… but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP. All these thugs better get their mind right and their ass out of our country before January 20th.”

Higgins’ comment about “our President and VP” referred to Republican nominees Donald Trump and JD Vance, who are facing criminal charges for “pet-eating” lies attacking Haitians in the state of Ohio.

MSNBC host, legal contributor and correspondent Katie Phang remarked: “Higgins doesn’t try to hide the racism or the xenophobia. Instead, he decides that full bore ’round ‘em up and string ‘em up’ energy was the way to go.”

Congressman Higgins has not apologized, and appears unrepentant.

READ MORE: ‘Hostile Takeovers’: Trump Says Immigrants Are Using ‘Massive Machine Gun-Type Equipment’

“Despite the backlash and ultimate decision to take down the post after he said he prayed on it, Higgins told CNN he stood by his demeaning comments,” the news network reported.

“It’s all true,” Higgins said of his post. “I can put up another controversial post tomorrow if you want me to. I mean, we do have freedom of speech. I’ll say what I want.”

“It’s not a big deal to me. It’s like something stuck to the bottom of my boot. Just scrape it off and move on with my life.”

House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued a strong statement condemning Higgins, his remarks, and “extreme MAGA Republicans.”

“The disgusting statement by Clay Higgins about the Haitian community is vile, racist and beneath the dignity of the United States House of Representatives,” Jeffries’s statement begins. “He must be held accountable for dishonorable conduct that is unbecoming of a Member of Congress. Clay Higgins is an election-denying, conspiracy- peddling racial arsonist who is a disgrace to the People’s House. This is who they have become. Republicans are the party of Donald Trump, Mark Robinson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Clay Higgins and Project 2025. The extreme MAGA Republicans in the House are unfit to govern.”

Saying he had “heard about” the tweet, Speaker Johnson told reporters, “Clay Higgins is a dear friend of mine and a colleague from Louisiana, and a very frank and outspoken person. He’s also a very principled man. And, I think, he tweeted – I didn’t even see it but he tweeted something today about Haitians.”

The Speaker appeared to dismiss a reporter when she interjected that Rep. Higgins had “told them to get out of the country by Jan 20th.”

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“Well, OK,” Johnson responded, seemingly irritated by the reporter’s remark. “He was approached on the floor by colleagues who said that was offensive. He said he went to the back – I just talked to him about it – he said he went to the back and he prayed about it, and he regretted it, and he pulled the post down. That’s what you want a gentleman to do. I’m sure he probably regrets the language he used. But you know, we move forward. We believe in redemption around here.”

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U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV), the Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, quickly moved to have the House censure Congressman Higgins, but House Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise, also from Louisiana, defended Higgins.

READ MORE: ‘Ain’t Taking Anybody’s Jobs’: Trump Blasted Over Haitian Lies, This Time in Pennsylvania

Scalise, who reportedly once boasted he was “David Duke without the baggage“—a reference to the former KKK Grand Wizard whom Higgins reportedly supported in a Louisiana gubernatorial race—stood on the House floor and opposed the motion to censure Higgins.

“First of all, the tweet has been deleted already, and removed, but I object to the motion,” Scalise said, as roars of anger from the House grew loud. “And if we want to go through every comment, tweet from the other side, we’ll be happy to do it.”

Scalise was interrupted, as he had not been recognized to speak on the floor.

“You would be appalled by some of the things that have not been removed,” Scalise continued, after his microphone appeared to be cut off.}:

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U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who last year was in the running to be Speaker of the House and this year rumored to have been on Donald Trump’s vice presidential shortlist, and U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), tried to minimize the impact of Higgins’ attack on Haitians.

“Both Reps. Byron Donalds and Wesley Hunt said they don’t think Higgins’s post hurt Donald Trump with Black voters,” Semafor’s Kadia Goba reported.

Congressman Hunt told her, “Everybody knows who they’re going to vote for at this point.”

Watch the videos above or at this link.

READ MORE: ‘Hellscape’: Women Increasingly Charged With Pregnancy-Related Crimes After Roe’s End

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after Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana) posted a tweet bashing both Haiti and its people, a wave of backlash led to him deleting it. Now, some Democrats are calling for Higgins to be officially censured.

On Wednesday, Higgins weighed in on the ongoing controversy surrounding both former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) spreading a widely debunked lie about Haitian refugees in Springfield, Ohio eating residents' pets. Earlier this week, the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance pushed for criminal charges against Trump and Vance for knowingly lying about the Haitian community, which they say was a direct contributor to the wave of threats to Haitians in Ohio and elsewhere.

In his tweet. Higgins wrote: "Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters… but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP. All these thugs better get their mind right and their a— out of our country before January 20th."

READ MORE:'Rotten': GOP rep slammed over 'vile' post calling Haiti 'nastiest country in the western hemisphere'

Higgins' tweet led to Rep. Steve Horsford (D-Nevada) to file an official motion to censure Higgins. He argued that a censure was warranted in order for Congress to send a message to the Haitian community that racist attacks from members are not tolerated

"It is time to end hate, and the rhetoric of hate, and it is not becoming on any member to continue to push this type of rhetoric on any platform — let alone from the House of Representatives," Horsford said. "I ask unanimous consent to accept my motion to censure Representative Clay Higgins for violating Rule 9, by bringing discredit and disgrace to the House of Representatives."

At that point, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) rose to defend his Bayou State colleague, objecting to the motion on the basis that Higgins eventually took down his post. That objection prompted audible laughter from Democratic members present in the chamber.

"First of all, the tweet has been deleted already, and removed," Scalise said, while some Democrats are heard in the background laughing. "And if we want to go through everything the other side has said we'll be happy to do it!"

READ MORE:Trump and Vance face criminal charges over 'pet-eating' lies

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) told reporters during an impromptu press conference Wednesday that Higgins ultimately decided to delete the tweet after taking a moment to pray about it after it was posted. The censure motion has not yet passed as of Wednesday evening.

If he is censured, Higgins would be the third member of 2024 to be officially reprimanded by his colleagues. Earlier this year, the House voted along party lines to censure Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) for pulling a fire alarm and interrupting an ongoing vote. Members also censured Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) — the first Palestinian American elected to Congress — for remarks she made about Israel's bombing of Gaza.

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projection?

Democrats have repeatedly slammed Republicans as "weird" in 2024 — a line of attack that originated with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. And one of the things Democrats have cited as an example of weird, bizarre behavior among Republicans is an obsession with killing animals.

On September 24, The Guardian reported that back in 2004, now-Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts bragged about killing a pit bull with a shovel — an allegation Roberts flatly denies. The Guardian's reporting follows two major controversies involving Republicans and animals: former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) promoting the debunked conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants in Ohio have been kidnapping pets and eating them, and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem bragging about shooting a dog in a gravel pit in her book "No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forward."

The New Republic's Heather Souvaine Horn addresses this GOP fixation on killing animals in an article published on September 26.

READ MORE: Project 2025 architect allegedly used shovel to kill neighbor’s dog: 'Crazy thing to do'

"Had Roberts confirmed that he killed a dog," Horn explains, "he would hardly be the only prominent conservative in recent years to treat such an act as a badge of honor. The most striking example is Kristi Noem, who stunned the country this spring by bragging in her book about shooting her 14-month-old puppy and a family goat, portraying the story as an example of her grit and fortitude…. The book was widely seen as an attempt to burnish her credentials for Trump's VP slot."

Horn adds, "In response to the widespread backlash, Noem dug in, insisting that these were the sorts of tough calls necessitated by country life."

Horn argues that Noem "got the idea that killing animals and boasting about it was a form of informal right-wing résumé building"—and possible inspirations range from Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Gianforte, according to Horn, "illegally killed an underage elk in 2000," while Palin's support for "aerial wolf gunning" during the 2008 presidential race was "lauded by her supporters."

READ MORE:[Trump and Vance face criminal charges over 'pet-eating' lies

"So maybe Kevin Roberts bragged at work about killing his kid neighbor's dog with a shovel, or maybe he didn't," Horn comments. "At this point in the history of American conservatism, he's going to have a tough time convincing people to give him the benefit of the doubt."

READ MORE:['I hated that dog': Kristi Noem recalls taking family pup to gravel pit and killing it

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With less than six weeks until Election Day and early voting already underway in four states, Donald Trump seems to have locked in on his closing message for what he acknowledges will be his final presidential campaign if he loses in November. It’s the same message that launched his political career nine years ago: attacking immigrants.

In a sign anti-immigrant sentiment is the highest it’s been in over two decades, Gallupreports as of June, 55% of Americans want to see immigration decreased. In October of 2001, following the September 11 terror attacks, 58% wanted immigration decreased.

Trump’s anti-immigrant attacks reached a crescendo two weeks ago during the presidential debate against his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Seemingly out of nowhere, he dropped his “pet-eating” lie that would lead to dozens of bomb threats across more than 20 facilities in the small town of Springfield, Ohio.

“What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country,” Trump said, attacking Vice President Harris and President Joe Biden. “And look at what’s happening to the towns all over the United States. And a lot of towns don’t want to talk — not going to be Aurora or Springfield. A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it. 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.”

READ MORE: ‘Ain’t Taking Anybody’s Jobs’: Trump Blasted Over Haitian Lies, This Time in Pennsylvania

That lie was quickly debunked but Trump and his vice-presidential running mate, U.S. Senator JD Vance, continued to spread it.

This week Trump excised his pet-eating derangement, adding in another element: machine guns.

“We can’t have factories being built where you have criminals walking down the street with the worst weapons that you’ve ever seen, with machine guns and everything else,” Trump declared Tuesday at an event billed as a manufacturing policy speech in which he appeared to come out in favor of an assault weapons ban.

On Wednesday, the ex-president, a convicted felon who legally cannot own even a pistol, standing in front of banner that read “Jobs Jobs Jobs,” expanded his claims ata rally in North Carolina (video below).

“But Kamala should have closed the border years ago, and we wouldn’t have hostile takeovers of Springfield, Ohio, Aurora Colorado, where they’re actually going in with massive machine gun-type equipment. they’re going in with guns that are beyond even military scope, and they’re taking over apartment buildings, they’re taking over, real estate – they’re in the real estate development business. Congratulations,” Trump said sarcastically. “These are, in that case, people from Venezuela. Young street gang members that were sent here by the Venezuelan government.”

Mark Jacob, an author and former Chicago Tribune editor turned media critic, blastedTrump and the mainstream media: “Trump’s lies to foment hatred against immigrants keep getting more vivid and unhinged, and major media are DOING A TERRIBLE JOB of explaining how dangerous this is.”

Luis Moreno, a former U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, remarked: “Besides eating cats, Haitian immigrants are now deploying crew served laser beam systems. We need to find out who is training these people!”

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Trump had made similar, false claims during the debate, saying, “we have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums. And they’re coming in and they’re taking jobs that are occupied right now by African Americans and Hispanics and also unions. Unions are going to be affected very soon. And you see what’s happening. You see what’s happening with towns throughout the United States. You look at Springfield, Ohio. You look at Aurora in Colorado. They are taking over the towns. They’re taking over buildings. They’re going in violently. These are the people that she and Biden let into our country. And they’re destroying our country. They’re dangerous. They’re at the highest level of criminality. And we have to get them out. We have to get them out fast.”

The New York Times reported Trump’s claims of hostile takeovers by Venezuelan gangs appeared to originate from allegations made by a landlord.

“As far back as May 2023, Aurora officials had been trying to force an out-of-state landlord to fix up three blighted apartment complexes,” The Times reported earlier this month. “In July 2024, the landlord, CBZ Management, which says it is based in Colorado and Brooklyn, offered a new argument for why it couldn’t repair the buildings: Venezuelan gangs had taken over, and the property managers had been forced to flee.”

Those claims were quickly repeated, and later, a public relations agent hired by the landlord sent an even more elaborate story to a local Fox affiliate as a “tip.”

On Tuesday a nonprofit representing Haitian immigrants filed criminal charges against Trump and Vance, through its attorney, thanks to Ohio state law that allows private individuals to do so. They have asked a judge to issue an arrest warrant.

Watch Trump’s remarks from earlier Wednesday below or at this link.

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In Springfield, Ohio, Haitian immigrants have been fearing for their safety after former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), promoted the racist and debunked conspiracy theory that Haitians in the area have been kidnapping residents' dogs and cats and eating them.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Springfield Mayor Rob Rue, both conservative Republicans, have said there's zero truth to the claim. And DeWine praised Haitian immigrants in Ohio as "great workers" and "a boost to the economy."

The Washington Post's Catherine Rampell, in her September 24 column, cites the bogus claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Ohio as a troubling example of the way in which MAGA rhetoric echoes the "blood and soil" themes that fascist dictators used in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s.

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The columnist cautions that in many cases, "equating a political figure with fascists sounds absurd" and is "so over the top." But in Trump's case, she warns, it's accurate.

"In recent weeks," Rampell explains, "the Republican presidential nominee and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) have ramped up their baseless claims about violent invasions from impure foreigners, echoing 'blood and soil'-style rhetoric deployed nearly a century ago. At a rally this past weekend in North Carolina, Trump declared that 'a vote for Kamala Harris means 40 or 50 million more illegal aliens will invade across our borders, stealing your money, stealing your jobs, stealing your life.' Chillingly, he added that migrants were already 'attacking villages and cities all throughout the Midwest.'"

Rampell continues, "This followed earlier remarks in Arizona, in which he alleged that 'young American girls' are 'being raped and sodomized and murdered by savage criminal aliens.' Vance has likewise baselessly accused Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio of not only butchering and eating people's pets, but also, of killing people."

The columnist notes that before Vance became a Trump ally, he described him as "America's Hitler."

READ MORE:'Furious' Trump is panicked as MAGA becomes monster he no longer controls: analyst

"Lest Trump's fascist echoes be too faint for Vance to hear these days, the former president occasionally cranks up the volume with antisemitic tropes," Rampell observes. "For instance, he accused American Jews of voting for 'the enemy' and agreed with a radio host that Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, is a 'crappy Jew.' Debates over 'good' and 'bad' Jews rarely end well for Jews."

READ MORE:['Are you trying to lose the election?' Haley rips Senate candidate for remark about women

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alternet-trump has a brand new front in the Haitian conspiracy push

Jordan Greenand Raw Story September 23, 2024

During a campaign rally in Tucson, Ariz., earlier this month — his first since debating Vice President Kamala Harris — former President Donald Trump doubled down on his false claims that Haitians are stealing and eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio.

Then, he tossed another small Rust Belt community into the national spotlight.

“Likewise, a small 4,000-person town, Charleroi, Pennsylvania,” Trump said. “Have you ever heard of it? Charleroi. What a beautiful name. But it’s not beautiful now. It’s experienced a 2,000 percent increase in the population of Haitian migrants under Kamala Harris.

“So, Pennsylvania: Remember this when you have to go to vote,” Trump added.

The sudden burst of attention by Trump and his allies on the borough of Charleroi in Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley is yet more evidence that the campaign is leaning into racial scapegoating as an electoral strategy to win critical swing states, even as critics warn the rhetoric could spill into vigilante violence.

ALSO READ: Let's call Springfield what it is: Republican-made terrorism

Trump and his MAGA allies' focus on Charleroi appears to have begun on Sept. 11, when a shadowy nonprofit linked to a former speechwriter for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign posted an interview with a pro-Trump member of the Charleroi borough council.

The language in the X post by the nonprofit America 2100 is markedly similar to what Trump would say at his campaign rally the following day.

“It isn’t just Springfield; it’s happening everywhere,” the post reads. “In Charleroi, Pennsylvania — a low-income town of just 4,000 — the immigrant population has increased by 2,000% over the past two years. It’s almost all Haitians.”

The America 2100 post was boosted when Donald Trump Jr. re-posted it only 10 minutes later.

Nate Hochman, a senior adviser to America 2100 and the only person publicly identified with the nonprofit, was fired from the DeSantis campaign in June 2023 after reportedly making a video featuring the Sonnenrad — a symbol also known as the Black Sun that is associated with Nazis — and tweeting it from a pro-DeSantis account.

Previously, Hochman had praised Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist who has denied the Holocaust and made numerous antisemitic statements. Hochman said on a December 2021 Twitter Space chat that Fuentes had “gotten a lot of kids based, and we respect that for sure.” He added: “But the fact that you’ve said super edgy things means that there’s a pretty strong ceiling to what you can accomplish in politics.”

Hochman, a former intern at the Claremont Institute’s American Mind magazine and now a contributor at the American Spectator, announced on X on Monday that he was making a road trip to Charleroi “to report on the Haitian immigration crisis.”

Over the course of the week, Hochman posted video after video on the America 2100 X account, featuring interviews with local white residents who were unhappy about their new Haitian neighbors.

In one interview, a white man identified as “Tom” complains that the Haitians “have no interest in our culture” and that they open their own groceries “at the main drag of town.” The X post identifies Tom as “a lifelong native,” although the video shows Tom saying he moved to Charleroi in 2017.

In a video posted on Thursday, a man identified as “Ernie” laments that Charleroi “used to be a nice, middle-of-nowhere blue-collar town.”

“I think they’ve just destroyed the town, and they’ve bought all these properties,” Ernie says. “Okay, you might be able to buy a house cheap, but what kind of people are you gonna get in?”

“Yeah, what kind of neighbors you have?” Hochman says.

“Well, that’s it,” Ernie says. “And right now I’m surrounded by the immigrants.”

Some of the America 2100 X posts echo Great Replacement, a white supremacist conspiracy theory that, taken to an extreme, falsely claims that white people face genocide because of demographic changes.

“One thing that can’t be overstated is the degree to which mass migration wreaks havoc on the social cohesion of the already-existing community,” reads one post from a Sept. 7 thread about Springfield. “Local landlords, for example, have been making a killing. But they’re replacing their fellow citizens — and locals hate them for it.”

The post includes screengrabs from the “Haitian Community in Springfield, Ohio” Facebook page. One commenter replies to a post by a local realtor offering her services to the immigrant community by writing, “Wouldn’t plan on staying too long.”

Another X post by the America 2100 account refers to immigrants as “invaders,” using verbiage that turned up in the manifesto of 21-year-old white supremacists who massacred 23 people in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart in August 2019.

Hochman could not be reached for comment for this story.

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Trump himself has repeatedly used the term, including during his recent campaign rally in Tucson.

“Under Kamala Harris, our country is under a thing called invasion,” he said. “Did you ever hear the word invasion? Just like a military. It’s like a military invasion. We’re being conquered and we’re being occupied by a foreign element.”

Swing state strategy of attacking immigrants

While the racist rhetoric against Haitian immigrants in Springfield focused on false claims that they are stealing and eating people’s pet, the attacks in Charleroi have zeroed in on another object of fear in white grievance politics: jobs.

An X post by the Libs of TikTok account run by Chaya Raichik, one of more than a dozen social-media influencers enlisted by the Trump campaign for a “war room” that amplified his attacks on Harris during the recent debate, shared a video on Tuesday that featured a man ruefully describing an arrangement to transport Haitian immigrants by bus to and from a processed food packaging plant in Charleroi.

“Incredible footage revealing an operation in Charleroi, PA where Haitians are being bussed to and from food factories operated by Fourth Street Foods,” the post reads. “Kamala imported 2,000 Haitians into this town of 4,000 people, and now they’re taking American jobs.”

State Sen. Camera Bartolotta, a Republican who represents Charleroi, said in a reply that she had re-posted from the Libs of TikTok account in the past, but the post about her constituents was not true.

“There was no workforce in Charleroi a few years ago when a business owner desperately needed them,” Bartolotta told Raichik. “He advertised and looked for workers for a long time. Before shutting down completely, he hired an agency that connected immigrants who were vetted and legal to work in his facility.”

David Barbe, the CEO of Fourth Street Foods, confirmed to KDKA News of Pittsburgh on Wednesday that his immigrant employees haven’t displaced any native-born workers.

“If I had 300 Americans come in today and they wanted to work, we would make room for them,” Barbe told investigative journalist Andy Sheehan.

Contrasting with the claims by the locals interviewed by Hochman suggesting that the Haitian immigrants are bankrupting Charleroi, Borough Manager Joe Manning told Sheehan that the new arrivals have made a net positive contribution to the area economy.

“They come here, they buy property,” Manning said. “They open businesses. They work here. They pay taxes. So, for us, at the end of the day, it has been a benefit.”

Some of Trump’s supporters believe that his false claims about Haitian immigrants, far from alienating voters, will instead give him the edge in critical swing states.

Jeremy Carl, a former deputy assistant secretary of the interior and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, praised Trump for bringing up “the cats” during the debate.

“You know, that’s just going to be a winning issue for us because it really is the linchpin of kind of every other crazy thing the left has done particularly on immigration,” Carl said during a podcast appearance on Monday.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who previously served as mayor of Braddock — a borough only 30 miles away from Charleroi — predicted to Raw Story that Pennsylvania voters will ultimately reject Trump’s electoral strategy of demonizing immigrants.

“Blame the immigrants, whether it’s that my dog’s gone — blame the immigrant,” Fetterman said. “That’s very anti-immigration. And now they’re proud of that. They’re not even trying to veil that. And western Pennsylvania has a really long history of immigration, and sometimes people blaming all of the ills on immigrants too. And I strongly reject that. And western Pennsylvania I think will as well, too.”

‘A total explosion of media’: Enter CSPOA

The Trump campaign did not respond to a question from Raw Story about how the candidate became aware of the Haitian immigrant community in Charleroi.

However, during an interview with the Liberty RoundTable podcast, Borough Councilman Larry Celaschi alluded to the America 100 X post published on the eve of Trump’s rally in Tucson.

“I know I did an interview with another news source out there that happened to go viral, and the next thing you know we’re hearing the same language that they had as their headlines was released from President Trump’s own mouth at his rally,” Celaschi said. “Since that time, it’s just been a total explosion of media here in the borough of Charleroi. It’s just overwhelming. I didn’t know that there were that many media sources out there.”

The two men who interviewed Celaschi, along with Borough Mayor Gregg Doerfler, are themselves representative of the far-right media personalities who have gravitated to the drama that Trump generated surrounding Charleroi.

Sam Bushman, the podcast host, is the CEO of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, or CSPOA, an organization that promotes the controversial idea that sheriffs are the highest law in the land and are not legally bound to uphold state and federal laws that they unilaterally deem to be unconstitutional.

As documented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Bushman has a long history of promoting racist ideas and providing a forum for hardcore white nationalists. In July 2023, he interviewed a member of the white supremacist group Identity Dixie. In a Facebook post, the pseudonymous guest known as “Padraig Martin” advised those who attended the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. and the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol that the next time they should be “prepared to kill them all.” He urged: “Do not leave a single police officer, congressman, judge or any other functionary.”

The other host who interviewed the Charleroi borough mayor and councilman on Tuesday was Richard Mack, the founder of CSPOA and current president of its advisory board.

Ignoring the fact that the Haitians living and working in Charleroi are there under temporary protected status, Mack suggested that an unspecified group of “supposed leaders” should be investigated for “aiding and abetting illegal immigration.” He added, “It might rise to the level of treason.”

Bushman and Mack prodded Doerfler and Celaschi to tell them about crime committed by Haitians.

Pressed for specific examples, Doerfler said, “The people, they’re just afraid to walk the streets, or whatever. I’ve heard a lot of that.”

Doerfler did not return a phone message left by Raw Story.

Celaschi told Bushman and Mack about a business owner who ran into her establishment and dialed 911 after a Haitian immigrant allegedly pursued her, demanding money he believed she owed him.

“To me, your police chief, if there’s illegals in your community, need to take action on the illegal activity, doesn’t he?” Bushman said. “I mean, I’m not here to try to divide your community, but I’m saying, look, if you got illegal people committing illegal acts, are they in jail, or they just allowed to run around free? Where’s your law enforcement locally?”

Doerfler and Celaschi confirmed that the police do arrest people in Charleroi, including Haitians, who break the law.

“The racist intervention of far-right groups like CSPOA in places like Charleroi makes the entire community significantly less safe and makes it more challenging to deal with real issues facing rural America,” Devin Burgart, who monitors the far right as director of the Seattle-based Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, told Raw Story. “This type of rhetoric puts the Haitian community and Black residents of Charleroi in grave danger, as the bomb threats and violent racist rhetoric leveled at Springfield proved.”

Echoing Trump’s false charge in Tucson last week that “not only is Comrade Kamala allowing illegal immigrants to stampede across our border, but she’s flying them here from other countries,” Bushman asked the two borough leaders if they believe the federal government is complicit in a crime.

“Did the federal government and your state government in some way literally aid and abet illegal activity in America?” Bushman asked.

“Yes, they did aid and abet,” Celaschi responded. “Absolutely. I will stand by your statement 1,000 percent.”

Bushman was exultant.

“And they’re literally saying the federal government has partnered in promoting illegal activity, all the way down to their city,” he said, “to the point of literal virtual mayhem where citizens are in fear in their community.”

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September 18, 2024 rww

According to the city manager in Springfield, Ohio, JD Vance knew the truth about Haitian immigrants. The senator and Donald Trump kept lying anyway.

During an appearance on The Auron MacIntyre Show, Claremont Institute senior fellow Jeremy Carl not only celebrated the spread of these false claims, he predicted that it will be a “winning issue” for the Republican Party.

Quickly debunked claims spread like wildfire on X on Wednesday that explosives were found in a car near the site of former President Donald Trump’s upcoming rally on Long Island, New York.

Republican Senator John Neely Kennedy accused an Arab American activist of being a member of Hamas, in an incredibly racist tangent during a congressional hearing.

“My kids keep me humble,” Ms. Sanders said at an event with former President Donald J. Trump. “Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.” The remark quickly drew backlash.

It’s no surprise that another clip of Robinson being the worst has emerged. This time Robinson is caught on camera in a 2022 church appearance, going on a tirade about how women don’t need birth control because — as he gestures to his crotch for emphasis — they need to “get this under control” instead.

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September 19, 2024, edition of Loomer Unleashed streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): Go online and type in Haitian cannibals; you'll see for yourself. A cannibal gang and its barbecue leader pushed Haiti into chaos. So, no, Jimmy Kimmel is lying. He's attacking me as a racist saying that I'm beyond the pale and that I'm a racist and that I'm a terrible person, but they do. The Haitians are eating people. They're cannibals. Not all of them, but a lot of them are. They're eating people, and they're eating people's pets, and they're eating the cats, and they're eating the dogs. So how is this racist?

We don't do that here in America. We don't eat people. We don't practice cannibalism. It's disgusting. It's third-world. It's beyond third-world. I mean, it's like, it's like for, it's like for people and I don't know, living in the jungle, you know, it's like, I don't even know if people like living in the jungle do this. Right? It's animalistic behavior. It's like Stone Age behavior. Exactly. There's people that live in the most depraved third-world conditions, and they're still not eating people. It is so third-world.

h/t AngryWhiteMen.org

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JD Vance, Springfield, and how MAGA media spun a racist lie out of control

Vance’s office was told it was “baseless” from the beginning

Written by Matt Gertz

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Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance told reporters on Tuesday that it was their job — not his — to fact-check his claim that Haitians were stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. The Wall Street Journal did just that, revealing on Wednesday morning that Springfield’s city manager told Vance’s office that the story was baseless, soon after the Republican vice presidential nominee started publicly making the racist claim.

A Vance staffer contacted Springfield City Manager Bryan Heck on the morning of September 9 and “asked point-blank, ‘Are the rumors true of pets being taken and eaten?’” Heck told the Journal. “I told him no. There was no verifiable evidence or reports to show this was true. I told them these claims were baseless.”

The Haitian immigrant saga is a testament to the right’s refusal to abide by anything resembling evidentiary standards, their demagogic response when anyone dares to point out that their claims are unsubstantiated — and how their lies can spiral wildly out of control.

Thousands of Haitian immigrants have settled in Springfield and its environs in recent years, fleeing violence, political unrest, and economic collapse in their home country while being drawn by local jobs and a “dire labor shortage.” The population surge has created real but surmountable challenges for local governance, resulting in an influx in state assistance and calls for federal aid.

Local businesses and church leaders, however, praise the new residents, who “are here legally,” according to the Springfield government.

Earlier this month, a Springfield resident published a since-deleted post to a private local Facebook group spreading “vague, third hand gossip” about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets in the area.

The internet rumor spread to X on September 5 and spiraled through the right-wing media apparatus for days. Then on the morning of September 9, Vance, who is extremely online, promoted the claims on X, triggering a slew of supportive coverage from right-wing media.

Springfield’s city manager told Vance’s staffer such claims were “baseless” soon after, the Journal reported. Vance kept his post up and added another the next day in which he acknowledged that he was promoting “rumors” that may “turn out to be false,” but nonetheless urged his supporters to “keep the cat memes flowing.”

That night Donald Trump cited what his running mate had acknowledged were “rumors” that his office had been informed were baseless at a presidential debate before an estimated television audience of nearly 70 million Americans.

The former president, who shares the evidentiary standards of the average denizen of right-wing fever swamps, told the public that Democrats had allowed “millions and millions of people to come into our country” and that “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.”

ABC News moderator David Muir responded by telling Trump what he could have learned from speaking to his running mate’s staff if he were marginally interested in saying true things.

“ABC News reached out to the city manager there,” Muir said. “He told us ‘there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured, or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.’”

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This mild rebuttal of what Trump’s running mate had publicly called a “rumor” which could be false — along with a handful of similar fact-checks of right-wing media nonsense Trump promoted that night — triggered a massive right-wing freakout targeting ABC.

Over the following days, Trump and his allies called for government retribution against the network and its parent company and even criminal charges, while promoting absurdly thin claims about an “ABC whistleblower” who was exposing the purportedly rigged debate.

Meanwhile, Trump’s right-wing propagandists scrounged for evidence even vaguely resembling the initial claims which immediately collapsed under scrutiny, including a photo purportedly showing a Haitian immigrant carrying a dead goose to eat, a video purportedly showing a cat being grilled in neighboring Dayton, Ohio, false claims that Haitians were causing an increase in “communicable diseases like HIV and TB,” and an attack on Haitian immigrants in Pennsylvania.

Springfield’s community has experienced significant disruption since Vance and Trump took a rumor from the right-wing fever swamps, gave it a national audience, and mired the city in a ridiculous national debate.

Local schools, colleges, churches, and government buildings have suffered bomb threats that resulted in evacuations. The Proud Boys, a violent Trumpist gang, marched through the streets, while “fliers from a group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan” circulated. Haitian residents say they fear for their safety and are keeping their children home from school.

Ohio’s Republican governor Mike DeWine publicly urged Trump and Vance to end their “very hurtful” attacks on Haitian immigrants. Springfield’s mayor Rob Rue, also a Republican, added that "It would be helpful if they understood the weight of their words and how they could harm a community like ours.”

But Vance, Trump, and their right-wing media allies are undeterred. Their aim, as Vance admitted in a Sunday interview, is to “create stories” by uplifting bullshit in order to drive media attention to the purported horrors of immigrants (and presumably away from covering unpopular aspects of their agenda, like restricting abortion, raising grocery prices, and rolling back protections on health coverage for preexisting conditions).

On Tuesday, he denied any sense of responsibility for his actions and their consequences.

“A woman who was behind an early Facebook post about the Haitian migrants in Springfield has now apologized for spreading false rumors,” a reporter told Vance at a Q & A during a rally in Wisconsin. “You say that you have a responsibility to share what your constituents tell you, but don’t you also have a responsibility to fact-check them first?”

“I think the media has a responsibility to fact-check the residents of Springfeild, not lie about them,” Vance replied, to cheers from the crowd. “I actually think this is really interesting, and I’ve learned a lot about the American media over the last week, and none of it is good.”

Vance went on to claim that his office had heard the story about pets from “multiple people” and the media has descended on the town and engaged in “bullying on an industrial scale” that he called “disgraceful.”

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CitationFrom a September 17, 2024,YouTube video of a JD Vance campaign event

Vance’s office, meanwhile, had provided the Journal with one new piece of evidence, “a police report in which a resident had claimed her pet might have been taken by Haitian neighbors,” which instantly dissolved when the paper went about trying to “fact-check” it.

“But when a reporter went to Anna Kilgore’s house Tuesday evening, she said her cat Miss Sassy, which went missing in late August, had actually returned a few days later—found safe in her own basement,” the Journal reported on Wednesday.

“Kilgore, wearing a Trump shirt and hat, said she apologized to her Haitian neighbors with the help of her daughter and a mobile-phone translation app.”

Don’t expect similar apologies from Vance, Trump, or any of the right-wing propagandists peddling this story.

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“Haitian immigrants aren’t just eating cats and dogs. They eat HUMANS,” Loomer baselessly claimed Thursday. “Remember their leader? Known as ‘Barbeque’? Only Hannibal Lecter himself would want to bring more of them to the United States!”

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Right-wing media are gleefully promoting a false, racist rumor that Haitian migrants are eating pets

Right-wing figures have called Haitian people “locusts,” zombies,” and “weird Third World aliens”

Written by Chloe Simon & Reed McMaster

Research contributions from Gideon Taaffe

Published 09/10/24 mma

On September 9, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance claimed that Haitian migrants had “abducted and eaten” pets in Springfield, Ohio, seemingly referencing debunked social media rumors.

Though local officials explained that there was no truth to the claim, right-wing media immediately jumped on the bandwagon, amplifying Vance’s allegations and pushing racist narratives about Haitian immigrants.

Some right-wing figures accused Haitian migrants of consuming “cats and ducks” and comparing them to “zombies” and “locusts.”

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