I'd say the consequences of the lie about immigrants eating cats and dogs, it dramatizes a point about hatred and anxiety about immigrants, but "I saw it on TV," isn't sourced enough. You need to be more than a salesman to be a president. The harm to people in Springfield isn't worth trying to weasel his way into the presidency by manipulating hatred and anxiety.
The Guardian as usual has the best article.
HCR: On August 10, about a dozen neo-Nazis of the “Blood Tribe” organization showed up in Springfield, where one of their leaders said the city had been taken over by “degenerate third worlders” and blamed the Jews for the influx of migrants. The neo-Nazis stayed and, on August 27, showed up at a meeting of the city council, where their leader threatened council members. On September 1, another white supremacist group, Patriot Front, held its own “protest to the mass influx of unassimilable Haitian migrants” in the city. Right-wing social media posters pushed the story, usually with “witnesses” to events in the city coming from elsewhere.
Is this lying?
“How is everyone falling for this? He wants this story. He looked old and dumb at the debate, now there are rumors he's getting blow jobs and knocking up a younger woman? This story was seeded to make him look virile and the left are spreading it for him.“ Reddit
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