Trump’s Lies About Haitian Immigrants Create Chaos In Springfield, Ohio
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🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In the week since the presidential debate, former President Donald Trump’s lies about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have sown chaos in the small city. Members of the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group, started showing up. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said more than 30 fake bomb threats have been called in, forcing schools, government buildings and stores to close temporarily. Dr. Robert Baker, a political science professor at Springfield’s Wittenberg University, talks about how Trump’s debate comment is disrupting life in the city. Later, Miami Herald Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles talks about how the situation on the ground in Haiti is driving people out of the country.
And in headlines: House Speaker Mike Johnson failed to rally his conference to pass a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, the U.S. Justice Department filed a $100 million legal claim against the owner and operator of the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear signed an executive order banning the use of conversion therapy on LGBTQ minors.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, September 19th. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Jane Kosten. |
| 0:04.1 | And I'm Priyanka Ara Bindi, and this is, what a day, |
| 0:06.8 | the show where one of us is very excited |
| 0:09.8 | that according to the State Department, |
| 0:11.3 | we can now renew our passports online. |
| 0:14.0 | Very helpful if we forget. |
| 0:16.4 | There are two kinds of people, people who might forget to renew their passport just before a big trip, |
| 0:21.0 | and people who are going to need to take a walk because thinking |
| 0:23.7 | about this makes them very anxious. Yeah but listen this helps both of those |
| 0:27.3 | people. That's true. Perfect. On today's show we try to understand why everybody is so excited about the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates. |
| 0:37.0 | Plus, Kentucky takes a stand for LGBTQ folks. |
| 0:40.0 | But first, in the week since the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, people have been reacting to one moment in particular. |
| 0:48.0 | In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets of the people that live there. |
| 1:00.0 | This is a lie, a lie that has been repeatedly debunked, but it is creating very real chaos in the city of Springfield. |
| 1:07.0 | Members of the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group, started showing up in the city. |
| 1:11.0 | Republican Governor Mike Duane said that there had been more |
| 1:13.7 | than 30 different bomb threats made, all of them hoaxes. Schools, government |
| 1:18.3 | buildings, universities and stores have had to close because of those threats. |
| 1:21.5 | During an interview with PBS |
| 1:23.6 | news hour on Tuesday, Duane urged Trump in his running mate. Ohio Senator |
| 1:27.7 | JD Vance to stop making these comments and he reiterated that the |
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