During the debate last Wednesday (11), U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump sparked outrage after claiming that Haitian immigrants are killing and eating pets.
“They’re eating the dogs — the people who came in — they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of people who live there, and that’s what’s happening in our country,” Trump said, referring to a conspiracy theory that circulated on social media about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
The channel ABC News, which hosted the debate, quickly rebutted the false claim. David Muir, the debate moderator, clarified that Springfield’s city manager said there were “no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured, or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.”
After the racist remark during the debate, Trump spoke again about Haitian immigrants during an event at his golf club in California last Friday (13). “Illegal Haitian immigrants have overrun a town of 58,000 people, destroying their way of life,” Trump said during the press conference, according to a report from Politico.
“We will carry out mass deportations in Springfield, Ohio,” the presidential candidate also said, according to Reuters. “I’m angry about illegal Haitian immigrants taking over Springfield, Ohio. You see this mess, don’t you?” Trump said at a rally in Las Vegas later on Friday.
“I’m angry about young American girls being raped and murdered by wild criminal foreigners who are entering our country very easily, but very illegally,” Trump also said in his speech.
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