In the ABC News Presidential Debate on Tuesday night, Donald Trump promoted a false rumor that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are abducting and eating pets, using the baseless story as evidence of crimes being committed by immigrants.
“They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in. They’re eating the cats,” Trump said.
ABC News moderator David Muir responded by fact-checking his remarks, pointing out that there’s no evidence that this has occurred.
“They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in. They’re eating the cats,” Trump said.
ABC News moderator David Muir responded by fact-checking his remarks, pointing out that there’s no evidence that this has occurred.
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00:00What 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
00:07To the towns all over the United States and a lot of towns don't want to talk
00:11It's 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
00:17Springfield they're eating the dogs the people that came in they're eating the cats they're eating
00:24They're eating the pets of the people that live there and this is what's happening in our country
00:31And it's a shame ABC News did reach out to the city manager there
00:34He told us there had been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed injured or abused by individuals
00:41within the immigrant community
00:43Let me just say here. This is the people on television say my dog was taken and used for food
00:48So maybe he said that and maybe that's a good thing to say for a city manager
00:53I'm not taking this from television
00:55Was eaten by the people that went there
00:59Again, the Springfield City Manager says there's no evidence of that vice-president Harris. I'll let you respond to the rest of what you've heard
01:05Talk about extreme