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🗓️ 14 September 2024
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0:00.0 | September 13th, 2024. |
0:10.6 | After bomb threats today, officials had to evacuate two elementary schools in Springfield, Ohio and move the students to a different location. |
0:19.0 | They had to close a middle school altogether. |
0:22.0 | This is the second day bomb threats have... to close |
0:25.0 | schools in public buildings after MAGA Republicans |
0:28.0 | have spread the lie that Haitian immigrants |
0:31.0 | there have been eating white people's pets. Haitian immigrants who were |
0:35.0 | who were welcome to Springfield by officials eager to revitalize the city |
0:39.6 | and who are there legally say they are afraid. |
0:43.0 | Hunter Walker and Josh Kovensky of Talking Points memo today explained where the lie |
0:48.5 | had come from and how it had spread. |
0:51.6 | More than two months ago they wrote Ohio Senator JD Vance who is |
0:55.9 | Trump's vice presidential running mate began to speak about Springfield at a Senate |
1:01.0 | Banking Committee hearing trying to tie rising housing prices to immigrants. |
1:06.0 | The next day at the National Conservatism Conference, Vance accused illegals of overwhelming the city. |
1:15.0 | On August 10th, about a dozen neo-Nazis of the Blood Tribe organization |
1:21.0 | showed up in Springfield, where one of their leaders said the city had been |
1:25.0 | taken over by degenerate third worlders and blamed the Jews for the influx of migrants. |
1:35.7 | The neo-NaziNazis stayed and on August 27th showed up at a meeting of the city council where their leader threatened council |
1:40.1 | members. On September 1st, another white supremacist group, Patriot Front, held its own |
1:47.3 | protests to the max influx of unassimilable Haitian migrants in the city. Right-wing social media posters push the story |
1:55.8 | usually with witnesses to events in the city coming from elsewhere. In late |
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