Article by Julia Manchester in The Hill, 10/24/24
Headline: “Vance addresses unfounded claims of migrants eating pets during NewsNation town hall”
“Republican vice presidential candidate and Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) addressed unfounded claims he made in September that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating dogs and cats during Thursday night’s NewsNation town hall.”
“. . .’Now, do I think that the media certainly got distracted on the housing crisis and the health crisis and the crisis in the public schools by focusing on the eating the dogs and the cats things? Yeah, I do. Do I wish that I had been better in that moment? Maybe,” he said.’
“ ‘But it’s also people in my community, people that I represent are coming to me and saying this thing is happening. What am I supposed to do? Hang up the phone and tell them they’re a liar because the media doesn’t want me to talk about it?’ ”
The false rumor (which hurt innocent people) about eating dogs & cats even generated a song by The Kiffness and may be found on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrCvZmSnKA
