Well, today started yet again with news of bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio.

Yesterday, two elementary schools and the city hall, and the DMV and the county court facilities had to close because of

bomb threats. Today two elementary schools were evacuated and a middle school had to

close.

Yesterday the mayor of Springfield told ABC news that he believes these bomb threats

are directly connected to the baseless rumors spread online in the wake of viral social media posts claiming Haitian migrants

were abducting people's pets in Springfield in order to eat them. I should note

that the claims about Haitian migrants eating pets in Springfield are lies.

There is no evidence to back up any of those claims, but that does not seem to matter.

Here's the thing, a week ago today, on all of Twitter, there were only about

1,000 posts mentioning Haitians, migrants, or immigrants eating animals.

Twitter is a very big place,

so this was truly a fringe conspiracy theory.

But during the presidential debate on Tuesday night,

Trump used his microphone to bring that conspiracy theory to the 67 million

people watching live. And now kids are being pulled from elementary school

classrooms and canine units are sweeping the city's

buildings from bombs and right-wing influencers from all over the country have descended on Springfield to quote unquote report on this

completely fabricated lie. Now you may be wondering how did this

particular conspiracy theory get to Donald Trump in the first place?

As it turns out, it's actually really hard to say,

because Trump has surrounded himself with so many toxic, fringy advisors that the pool of

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