President Donald Trump has not recanted his unsubstantiated claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating family pets. In fact, the former president doubled down last night at Univision’s town hall event in Miami.
During last month’s ABC News presidential debate, Trump was fact-checked by co-host David Muir, who said a Springfield city official said there was no evidence immigrants were eating people’s pets. Nevertheless, he made this claim. J.D. Vance reiterated that lie, admitting to X that the conspiracy theory was a “rumor,” but urging believers to keep spreading it anyway.
During a Univision event, a Latino Republican voter from Arizona said in Spanish: Nevertheless, you want to revoke the permission they have to legally reside in this country. With all due respect, I would like to ask you, “Do you really believe that these people are eating people’s pets?”
President Trump said, “This just got reported. I just said what was reported. And I ended up eating other things I shouldn’t have. All I do is report. We’ve been there, we’re going to be there, we’ll be there to see it. And we’ll give you a full report when we do. But it was in the newspapers and it was covered quite widely. ”
He added, “As far as Springfield is concerned, I say this because I know the situation there. You have a city of 52,000 people, and you’ve added almost 30,000 immigrants to it.” If you live there, you live in Springfield, Ohio, and all of a sudden you can’t go to the hospital, you can’t send your kids to school, you can’t buy groceries. If something like that happens, it’s a disaster for you and you won’t be happy. We want people to be safe, secure, and happy.”
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Elsewhere throughout City Hall, Trump was asked about inflation, the border and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Republican candidates were asked by farmers, “If we deport these people, who will do the work and what will they do?” How much do you pay for food? ”
President Trump said, “We need to get a lot of people to come to our country.” “We just want them to come through our system legally.” Additionally, the Biden administration has released “hundreds of thousands of people who were murderers, drug traffickers, and terrorists.” He claimed that there was.
President Trump said the Jan. 6 attack, which brought “hundreds of thousands of people” to Washington, had nothing to do with him. “They didn’t come for me,” he insisted. “They came for the election. They thought the election was fraudulent. That’s why they came.”
He added: “I said ‘peacefully and patriotically.'” There’s nothing wrong with that. It was a day filled with love from the perspective of millions of people. ”
Earlier this month, in an interview with Newsmax, President Trump said that Springfield’s Haitian immigrants, who have been granted temporary protected status and are legally in the United States, are “illegal immigrants to my knowledge.” insisted.
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“I mean, look at Springfield. They’ve dropped 30,000 illegal immigrants here. In fact, they may have done it with some little trick, but as far as I’m concerned, they’re illegal immigrants.” said President Trump. “They’re going to destroy towns, they’re going to destroy entire cities, they’re going to destroy whole countries. We can’t let this happen.”
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine called President Trump’s lies about Haitian immigrants in Springfield “garbage,” saying, “This is garbage that’s not true at all. There’s absolutely no evidence of this.”
