Why Trump is targeting Haitians in Ohio
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump and his vice-presidential running mate JD Vance have doubled down on their false claims that Haitian immigrants in the town of Springfield Ohio have been eating cats and dogs. Why are they doubling down on a debunked conspiracy theory? Also on the programme, Poland's prime minister says he's going to declare a state of disaster, as the country tries to tackle devastating floods that have hit much of eastern and central Europe; and, a look at the best in television for tonight's Emmy awards.
(Photo: A mural adorns a wall in the city of Springfield, Ohio, U.S. September 11, 2024. REUTERS/Julio-Cesar Chavez)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service coming to you live from our |
| 0:08.7 | studios in Central London I'm Julian Marshall and later in the program we'll bring you more on those reports |
| 0:14.8 | that Donald Trump is safe after gunshots were fired in his vicinity at his |
| 0:19.6 | golf course in Florida we understand the media to be briefed by the police shortly |
| 0:25.6 | we'll bring you the latest when we know more but first Donald Trump and his |
| 0:30.4 | vice presidential running mate JD Vance have doubled down on their false |
| 0:35.2 | claims that Haitian immigrants in the town of Springfield, Ohio have been eating cats and dogs |
| 0:41.0 | and that's despite the fact that the claims have been widely |
| 0:44.2 | debunked and ridiculed. Social media has been flooded with amusing memes and |
| 0:49.5 | reactions. Digital creators and musicians have come up not just with memes but parody songs like |
| 0:56.9 | this one called Eating the Cats. |
| 0:59.6 | They're eating the dogs. They're eating the dogs |
| 1:04.5 | eating the cats |
| 1:09.1 | They're eating the pets of the people that live there |
| 1:13.0 | People love Springfield please don't eat my cats. |
| 1:16.0 | Why would you do that eat something else? |
| 1:20.0 | That was by the musician David Scott also known as the Kiffner |
| 1:25.8 | Surface Lang for Cool who is based in Cape Town South Africa. |
| 1:29.8 | My aim with this particular song is to bring Levitti to a heated topic and unite people around a common cause and in this case the causes to raise money for the animals in Ohio. |
| 1:42.0 | So any money that we make from the song on YouTube or |
| 1:44.4 | Spotify is going to be donated to the SPCA in Springfield or higher. |
| 1:49.7 | I mean you speak about levity David but in a way do you not feel that's kind of undermining |
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