Former president repeats false claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating pets

Donald Trump’s false claim that immigrants in Ohio are abducting pets and eating them during Tuesday’s presidential debate was quickly slapped down by ABC News moderator David Muir.

While on the debate stage in Philadelphia, the former president asserted that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were “eating dogs” and “eating the cats” while pushing his anti-immigration policies.

“What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country and look at what’s happening to the towns all over the United States,” the former president said.

“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating – 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,” the former president claimed.

As he spoke, Harris looked in disbelief at the former president before laughing.

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Lol. This old bitch is getting owned by his own insane base. Fucking hilarious.

Love that Kamala laughed at this in her response.

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Women laughing bad!!!

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They literally believe that. Like, I’ve kind of fallen into a hole watching this one right wing cartoonist just to see how crazy the crazy gets, and he leans hard on Harris having a somewhat annoying sounding laugh that he turns up to 11.

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Women can’t laugh. Hillary got the same shit. And black women especially can’t be mad. It’s BS for sure.

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Trump is too psychotic to laugh at all, or genuinely smile, for that matter. The closest he gets is that goofy smug smirk.

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At first I was annoyed that the moderators kept letting him speak out of turn.

Then, when he was just putting foot in mouth again and again, I couldn’t wait for him to talk again.

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Never prevent your enemies from making a mistake.

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Reminded me of Obama’s classic “please proceed, governor” in the Romney debate.

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Homeboy has lost the plot, it’s well past time for bed, grandpa

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Don’t you think [he] looks tired…?

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He looks unwell

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If only it was that easy…

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Six words! Six six six!

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Her disbelief at him as he said that is my favorite part of the debate, hands down.

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I called it a while ago.

Nothing gets under Trump’s skin more than being laughed at by a woman.

He wants to be this big scary bully, and laughing at someone like that is the worse you can do to them. I haven’t watched the whole thing yet. But from Daily Show Kamala just alternated between that and looks of disbelief

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I noticed after the initial laugh Harris had to temper her smile a bit to evoke serious disappointment in Trump’s unhingedness and not look like she is agreeing. I bet Harris was absolutely ecstatic in that moment seeing how effectively he took the bait she laid for him.

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I heard the illegals are Hannibal Lecter now. And some are sharks with batteries.

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Batteries recharged with cancer-giving windmills!!

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WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!

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Illegal cannibal Blahajs powered by cancer windmill batteries are the new trans agenda /s

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Look at all that wasted desert soil on those solar farms!

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Just as long as the sharks don’t get frick’n lasers on their heads.

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Right now they’re just ill-tempered

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Hey, this is serious! Those robo-sharks voted for Biden!

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