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Vance’s team was told Haitian immigrant rumors were false before debate, Springfield mayor confirms (www.cnn.com)

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The Trump campaign continued to push false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, even after a top city leader told a campaign staffer for its vice presidential nominee ahead of this month’s presidential debate the rumors were “baseless,” the city’s mayor said, confirming a Wall Street Journal report.

A staffer of vice presidential candidate JD Vance called Springfield City Manager Bryan Heck on September 9 and asked if there was any truth in rumors that Haitian immigrants were taking and eating pets in Springfield, Heck told the Journal.

“He asked point-blank, ‘Are the rumors true of pets being taken and eaten?’” Heck told the outlet. “I told him no. There was no verifiable evidence or reports to show this was true. I told them these claims were baseless.”

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[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 14 points 1 month ago

Trump is trying to run the same 2016 campaign, and until Biden dropped out it was working for him. Harris has disrupted his autopilot campaign, and has nothing to pivot to. He cares 0% about Americans, or the US as a whole. He has no serious policies because they bore him, and the few he tries to talk about it's clear he can't comprehend them in his deteriorated mental state (tariffs!).

He just wants to stay out of prison and sell the US to the highest bidder and play golf someplace until he forgets what that is.

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