As residents of Springfield, Ohio, deal with a barrage of threats, Donald Trump and JD Vance are adding fuel to the fire they helped start.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/springfield-reels-vance-says-s-willing-create-stories-rcna171253
With seven weeks remaining before one of the most important elections in generations, the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential ticket has been heavily invested in an incredibly reckless and utterly false message: Immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are abducting and eating household pets, while slowly destroying a once-great town......
After taking the hysteria to a new level at the presidential debate last week,
Trump spent much of Friday accusing “illegal” immigrants of having “destroyed” the Ohio city, despite the fact the immigrants are in the United States legally, and Springfield remains intact. The former president also lied about the number of Haitians in the community, citing statistics he claims to have “heard.”
Asked Friday about children having to be evacuated from a local school following a bomb threat, the Republican nominee shrugged it off, suggesting it wasn’t a “real problem.” A day later, Trump was asked if he’d be willing to denounce bomb threats. He dodged the question.....
But that’s not all he said. The New York Times noted:
Senator JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, said Sunday that he stood by the debunked claims he and former President Donald J. Trump have spread suggesting Haitian migrants were eating pets, saying that he was willing “to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention.”
It’s the first time, at least during this campaign, that one of the Republican Party’s national candidates has admitted — out loud, on the record, and on camera — that
he’s willing “to create stories” in order to achieve political goals, even if that causes dangerous problems for his own constituents.
On Saturday, Trump told reporters that people in Springfield are “
going through hell.” In a way, that’s true. But to blame immigrants for the turmoil, instead of those lying about the immigrants, seems like a mistake.
Locals want Trump and Vance to help put out the fire the GOP candidates helped start. The would-be president and vice president are instead fanning the flames.
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