Mics Cut As Candidates Spar Over Springfield—Ohio City Facing False Pet-Eating Claims By Sara Dorn, Forbes Staff. Sara Dorn is a Forbes news reporter who covers politics.

Donald Trump, JD Vance's false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pet cats and dogs is PolitiFact's 2024 Lie of the Year.

Former President Donald Trump at his Sept. 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris repeated a debunked claim that Haitian immigrants were eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio.

The video had nothing to do with Springfield or Haitians. Instead, it involved a woman in Canton, Ohio, who faces animal cruelty charges and a mental competency hearing in October.

A mural that reads “Greetings from Springfield Ohio” is seen painted on an alley wall Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in Springfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ORG XMIT: OHCK212 ...

A Haitian nonprofit in Ohio filed criminal charges Tuesday against former President Donald Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance for "baseless fearmongering" over immigration and pet-eating ...

Trump and his vice presidential running mate, Ohio’s junior Sen. JD Vance, have used the cat-eating rumors to draw attention to the city’s 15,000 Haitian immigrants, whose arrival to fill ...

An Ohio woman pleaded guilty on Monday to killing and eating a cat in Ohio, over 150 miles from the city where false claims spread of Haitian migrants eating people's pets. Allexis T. Ferrell, 27 ...

Revisiting Springfield, Ohio, Where Trump’s Claims About Migrants Eating Pets Are Still Felt WSJ sat down with residents to discuss what the city stands to gain, or lose, if Haitians in the ...

Former President Trump pledged to travel to Springfield, Ohio, after false claims that he and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), have made about Haitian immigrants eating pets in the city.