Vance won’t drop lies about Haitians after Trump echoed them in debate

For days, JD Vance has been pushing disgusting, unsupported lies about Haitian immigrants in a small Ohio city eating pets. The city manager of Springfield, Ohio, has denied this story. The Springfield police have made it clear there have been no such reports. Legal immigrants brought new life to a dying city where the population and local employers have been “ecstatic” about the influx of new, reliable workers.

But on Tuesday night, Vance’s racist claims that Haitian immigrants were eating the pets of people in the area became Republican doctrine after an enraged Donald Trump snarled out the claim in the middle of a debate with presidential Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

"In Springfield, they're eating the dogs,” Trump said. “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.”

Congratulations, JD. Your racist, baseless, and dangerous lie is now Republican dogma.