Vance’s team was told Haitian immigrant rumors were false before debate, Springfield mayor confirms
Vance’s team was told Haitian immigrant rumors were false before debate, Springfield mayor confirms
The Trump campaign continued to push false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, even after a top city leader told a campaign staffer for its vice presidential nominee ahead of this month’s presidential debate the rumors were “baseless,” the city’s mayor said, confirming a Wall Stree...
The Trump campaign continued to push false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, even after a top city leader told a campaign staffer for its vice presidential nominee ahead of this month’s presidential debate the rumors were “baseless,” the city’s mayor said, confirming a Wall Street Journal report.
A staffer of vice presidential candidate JD Vance called Springfield City Manager Bryan Heck on September 9 and asked if there was any truth in rumors that Haitian immigrants were taking and eating pets in Springfield, Heck told the Journal.
“He asked point-blank, ‘Are the rumors true of pets being taken and eaten?’” Heck told the outlet. “I told him no. There was no verifiable evidence or reports to show this was true. I told them these claims were baseless.”
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The GOP is a terrorist organization.
That is correct, even the GOP agrees with you.
Everybody knew this was a stupid rumor and had already been debunked. Which is what got Harris' reaction when he brought it up. They don't have anything of substance to run on, so they have to go with created stories, and then double down even when those stories are shown to be false. It's all they have.
This isn't really all that new, it's just that the Trump and Vance team are so bad they don't know when to move on to something else. Past Republicans who used similar tactics are laughing at them, they're so bad.
Trump is trying to run the same 2016 campaign, and until Biden dropped out it was working for him. Harris has disrupted his autopilot campaign, and has nothing to pivot to. He cares 0% about Americans, or the US as a whole. He has no serious policies because they bore him, and the few he tries to talk about it's clear he can't comprehend them in his deteriorated mental state (tariffs!).
He just wants to stay out of prison and sell the US to the highest bidder and play golf someplace until he forgets what that is.
They have always known that this has always been a pizzagate-level conspiracy theory, and the campaign is pushing it, resulting in danger, fear, and chaos in Springfield, OH. This is what they want, to demonstrate their ability to damage the safety of citizens if they don't get their way.
This behavior is by design.
"Baseless? So they could be true and there is just no evidence at all?"
I don't think the distinction between a known falsehood and a baseless claim matters to Trump's cult at all, given that the distinction between reality and fiction doesn't seem to matter to them.
He never believed it. Not for a second.
Liars gonna lie, republicans gonna vote. How bout you?
Telling the Trump campaign directly was the problem—they needed to get Fox or someone else to make a video that they could watch on television.
What do people expect? He is a politician, therefore he lies.
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