Exclusive: Trump Drops Springfield Visit as Governor Warns of 'Strain' on City

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-24 00:07:37 | Updated at 2024-09-30 15:23:14 6 days ago

Exclusive: Trump Drops Springfield Visit as Governor Warns of 'Strain' on City
Newsweek ^ | Sep 23, 2024 at 2:46 PM EDT Updated Sep 23, 2024 at 3:04 PM EDT | Dan Gooding

Posted on 09/23/2024 4:38:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Donald Trump has no plans to visit Springfield, Ohio, despite pledging to do so at a rally last week, Newsweek can reveal.

The city was unwittingly thrust into the national spotlight this month after the former president and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, amplified claims that its Haitian migrant community were killing and eating residents' pets.

At a rally in Long Island on September 18, Trump said that he planned to visit Springfield in the next two weeks.

However, two sources familiar with the matter have said Trump is not expected to visit the city in the near future.

It comes as Ohio's Republican Governor Mike DeWine warned that a visit from Trump would "strain" relations with the local community and slammed the former president for what he called "hurtful" rhetoric.

Springfield became a focal point in the immigration debate after unproven rumors began spreading on social media that Haitian migrants were stealing and eating pets.

One post online claimed a woman had eaten a cat outside a home in Springfield—a city that has seen a sharp increase in migrants over the past two years. Many of those migrants have come from Haiti and are in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that allows them to live and work without fear of deportation.

The pet-eating rumors gained further attention when Trump brought them up during the presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

"In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're eating the cats ... They're eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame," Trump said.

While those rumors started as Facebook gossip that has since been debunked, Springfield has seen a rise in...

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: dangooding; newsweak; notdebunked; weaknews

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I don’t recall it being debunked in fact I doubt one could debunk it anyways.

2 posted on 09/23/2024 4:42:11 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Vance and Vivek are strong enough to visit that town. rPOTUS should focus on real swing states.

3 posted on 09/23/2024 4:42:39 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

I bet he ends up in Springfield in the final week to ten days before the election

4 posted on 09/23/2024 4:42:53 PM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)

To: E. Pluribus Unum; Georgia Girl 2

Doesn’t matter if he does/doesn’t ... everyone knows that THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS....THEY’RE EATING THE CATS....THEY’RE EATING THE PETS ....

Damage is already exposed ... as well as exactly WHO will fix it!

5 posted on 09/23/2024 4:44:39 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

He’s letting the media beat him. They are sticking to their guns about how they’ve ‘debunked’ the cat eating thing. In about a year, after it doesn’t matter anymore regarding voting, the NYT will run an article stating how it turns out, the cat eating stuff was true, but we couldn’t verify it at the time.

6 posted on 09/23/2024 4:49:30 PM PDT by KobraKai

To: escapefromboston

I agree.

An Ohioan here. The honorable governer here nearly broke two legs embracing all the CDC horse fart info regarding all the
the covid rules, regs and lockdown protocols.

My brother calls him “Deweinderfuerher”.

7 posted on 09/23/2024 4:51:40 PM PDT by EMI_Guy ("You have to slow down to go fast." - Kenny Robertson's)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Perhaps if tens of thousands of Haitians weren’t dropped into the community, there wouldn’t be any strain to worry about.

To: KobraKai

He’s letting the media beat him.

The man who took a bullet for us and never skipped a beat on the campaign trail and gets in front of rallies with tens of thousands of people at great personal risk of assassination every day is "letting the media beat him?"

Wow.

9 posted on 09/23/2024 4:54:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

But 20,000 Haitians aren’t a strain. Got it.

10 posted on 09/23/2024 4:56:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )

To: Jane Long

It’s witchcraft. They’re making sacrifices of them.

11 posted on 09/23/2024 5:03:10 PM PDT by OKSooner (Domestic animals for Trump.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

He hasn’t figured out how to beat the power of the MSM yet. It’s the truth. There are still tens of millions of people in this country that believe every single thing the MSM says, even if it contradicts what they just said the day before.

Today, the media’s narrative is that they’ve debunked Haitians eating cats. All they have to do is say they’ve debunked it, or ‘it’s been debunked’, and that is good enough for maybe 100 million Americans, because smart looking talking head said so on the TV Box.

It’s been ‘debunked’. Trump has to pull out of Springfield visit. Media wins.

12 posted on 09/23/2024 5:03:57 PM PDT by KobraKai

To: E. Pluribus Unum

I was hoping to see him bring out the truth about Springfield. But perhaps it’s best since the election is so close that he sticks to winning topics that most people want to hear about like the economy.

Vivek was in Springfield, although I didn’t hear much about it.

13 posted on 09/23/2024 5:05:51 PM PDT by KittyKares

To: OKSooner

14 posted on 09/23/2024 5:06:27 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)

To: Jane Long

There isn’t a great pool of undecided votes depending on proof of pet eating

15 posted on 09/23/2024 5:07:11 PM PDT by bigbob

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