'They're eating the pets:' Trump, Vance earn PolitiFact's Lie of the Year for claims about Haitians

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Politifact

‘They’re eating the pets:’ Trump, Vance earn PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for claims about Haitians



Our 2024 Lie of the Year goes to Donald Trump and JD Vance’s outrageous claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating cats and dogs. (AP)

By Amy Sherman
December 17, 2024

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Underlying 2024’s most outrageous political lie was a truth — some might even argue a confession — voiced by an accomplice: To get media attention, then-vice presidential candidate JD Vance acknowledged, sometimes "I have to create stories."

And so, with a brazen disregard for facts, Donald Trump and his running mate repeatedly peddled a created story that in Springfield, Ohio, Haitian immigrants were eating pet dogs and cats.

With this claim, amplified before 67 million television viewers in his debate against Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump took his anti-migrant, the U.S. border-is-out-of-control campaign agenda to a new level.

"In Springfield, they're eating the dogs," Trump said Sept. 10. "The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what's happening in our country. And it's a shame."

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Read more: https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/dec/17/theyre-eating-the-pets-trump-vance-earn-politifact/

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

PolitiFact’s Lie Of The Year: Haitians Eat Cats And Dogs
December 17, 2024

https://www.joemygod.com/2024/12/politifacts-lie-of-the-year-haitians-eat-cats-and-dogs/

[DeeDeeNY]

1. I wonder if the runner-up was Abortions being performed on babies after they're born

But it had to be tough choice. So many lies to choose from.

[dweller]

2. Could have been

The elementary school children sex changes … going to school one gender , coming home another gender .




✌🏻

[Hieronymus Phact]

3. i thought the runner up would be

Kids getting sex change operations in elementary school.

[Blue Owl]

4. That these two garnered 70 million votes is proof of the Idiocracy at hand

There's a bunch of fucking idiots out there.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

5. As these disgusting monsters continue with their hate-driven vendettas...

I look forward to the time when the people start eating the rich.

[Mr.Bee]

6. People Will Believe

Whatever FoxNewMax tells them!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. kick

[Biophilic]

8. So what award do the idiots that believed this get?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Higher prices. NT

[Bengus81]

10. The lastest absurd and WORSE lying is about the media,print and otherwise

Good news is the Des Moines register isn't backing down to that fascist.

Lark-Marie Anton, a spokesperson for The Des Moines Register, said in a statement Tuesday that Trump’s lawsuit is “without merit.”

“We have acknowledged that the Selzer/Des Moines Register pre-election poll did not reflect the ultimate margin of President Trump’s Election Day victory in Iowa by releasing the poll’s full demographics, crosstabs, weighted and unweighted data, as well as a technical explanation from pollster Ann Selzer,” Anton said. “We stand by our reporting on the matter and will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights.”

[republianmushroom]

11. Will there be a new trump/vance lie count made public for the next 4 years ?