U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg‘s response to former President Donald Trump, the GOP’s presidential nominee, and his running mate Ohio Senator JD Vance‘s false claims surrounding Haitian immigrants in Ohio has taken off online.
Springfield, Ohio, has been dominating the headlines over the past week after false claims were made that Haitian migrants, who are in the United States legally, have been killing pets and eating them.
These claims have been repeated by Trump and Vance. In his first debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, on Tuesday, which attracted in excess of 67 million viewers, the former president repeated the claim, saying: “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs—the people that came in. They’re eating the cats.”
However, Trump was quickly fact-checked live when he repeated the accusations, as city officials have debunked the rumors and police say there are “no credible reports” of the claims. Nevertheless, the false claims have spread like …