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When did you first start wondering,

what the hell is going on in When did you first start wondering?

What the hell is going on in Springfield, Ohio?

For me, I'll admit that it wasn't until last week's debate that I started asking a few questions.

And look at what's happening to the towns all over the United States.

It was immediately clear, this one moment was going to hit big, the one in which Donald Trump

alleged that Haitian migrants were eating pets in Ohio.

In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're

eating the cats. He sounds so confident in this lie. He repeats it three times.

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