John Legend defends hometown Springfield after Donald Trump’s bizarre cats and dogs claim

John Legend defended his hometown Springfield after Donald Trump's cats and dogs claim.Source: John Legend

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00:00My name is John Legend, and I was born as John R.

00:05Stevens from a place called Springfield, Ohio.

00:10Oh, Springfield, Ohio.

00:12You may have heard of Springfield, Ohio this week.

00:15In fact, if you watched the debate, we were discussed by our presidential

00:21candidates, including a very special, interesting man named Donald J.

00:28Trump.

00:29Now, Springfield has had a large influx of Haitian immigrants

00:37who have come to our city.

00:39They usually do very well here.

00:42They are hardworking, they're ambitious, they commit less crime

00:49than native born Americans, and they will assimilate and integrate in time.

00:57But it takes time.

00:59So I think all of us need to have the same kind of grace that we would want

01:04our ancestors to have when they moved here with our Haitian brothers and

01:09sisters who moved here too.

01:11And nobody's eating cats, nobody's eating dogs.