JD Vance Once Again Repeats Long Debunked Lies About Haitian Immigrants, Says He Will ‘Create Stories’ to Get Media Attention

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The story about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating their neighbor’s pets has long been debunked by both police and city managers in the area. Now, even after the Haitian community in Springfield has said they are being harassed and are fearful for their safety, Republican VP candidate JC Vance has repeated the claims again. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00The story about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating their neighbors' pets has long been

00:04debunked by both police and city managers in the area. However, that did not stop Donald Trump

00:10from echoing the lie, which started on Facebook via unsubstantiated rumors.

00:15They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats.

00:19Now, even after the Haitian community in Springfield has said they are being harassed

00:23and are fearful for their safety, Republican VP candidate J.D. Vance has repeated the claims again.

00:29He appeared on CNN on Sunday night, saying the story was based on first-hand accounts

00:34from his constituents, telling the interviewer, quote,

00:37If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention

00:40to the suffering of the American people, that's what I'm going to do.

00:44He was then pressed by interviewer Dana Bash, who asked what he meant by creating stories,

00:49to which he responded, I say that we're creating a story,

00:52meaning we're creating the American media, focusing on it.

00:55Vance seems to mean focusing on the immigrants who now live in Ohio,

00:58who local businesses say have been a boon to the town,

01:01which lost many citizens after factories closed down a decade ago.

01:05It's worth mentioning that J.D. Vance is currently a sitting senator for Ohio.

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