Trump Posts New Round of AI Haitian Cat Eating Hoax Memes

Trump continues to push this racist conspiracy theory

Trump has posted a new round of MAGA Republican AI memes to push the migrant pet eating hoax he claimed at the debate. Trump falsely claimed Haitian migrants are eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio.

On Thursday, Trump posted a new round of AI pet eating hoax posts to Truth Social, 5 posts in all.

Haitian families in Ohio under attack as racist claims spread

As false claims spread, the more unsafe Haitian immigrants are feeling

Time for someone to organize a Haitian Americans for Harris zoom call.

Nazis in the heartland:

Tensions over Haitian immigration continue to be an overriding issue at City Hall meetings
Updated Aug 28, 2024

[O]ne of the speakers addressing city leaders introduced himself as a member of the Blood Tribe group that marched in Springfield on Aug. 10. The name he gave appears to be an anti-Black pseudonym used by some hate groups.

"I was head of the anti-Haitian immigration march earlier this month," the man told city commissioners, referring to a dozen people who marched through the city during the Jazz & Blues Fest with Nazi flags and ski-mask covered faces.

". . .I've come to bring a word of warning," the man affiliated with the Nazi group said. "Stop what you're doing before it's too late. Crime and savagery only increase with every Haitian you bring in ... "

Trump and Vance's promotion of the cat eating story is not accidental, emphasis mine:

Neo-Nazi and far right groups seize on Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric

Extremist groups are latching on to ex-president's xenophobic messages to recruit people and spread ideology

In tandem with the Trump campaign's sloganeering, known figures on the far right and their online denizens are seizing on the open hatred of immigrants from the top Republican and going even more public with their brand of activism.

"At this point, demonizing and lying about immigrants is part and parcel of the far-right scene and a major part of its anti-immigrant messaging," said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), an extremism watchdog organization. "Non-white immigrants and refugees are enemy number one for the far-right."

Beirich warned the current climate is even more dangerous as she's seeing ideologies, once the sole domain of fringe neo-Nazis, being "mainstreamed by political figures".

For example, two separate hate groups recently descended on Springfield, Ohio, rallying with masks and uniforms and threatening the approximately 20,000 Haitian immigrants that have arrived in the town since the pandemic. In 2023, tensions among local residents flared up after a bus crash involving a Haitian driver helped make the Rust-belt town a flashpoint in anti-immigration debates.

In August, Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi group led by ex-US marine Christopher Pohlhaus, marched in Springfield waving swastika flags (with at least two members carrying rifles) and yelling anti-Black and racist epithets at a jazz festival.

Then, in early September, one of its leaders was granted time to speak at a town forum with local politicians.

"I've come to bring a word of warning," said the leader, speaking under a racist pseudonym. He is believed to be the second-in-command of Blood Tribe, after Pohlhaus, and also a former marine. "Stop what you're doing before it's too late. Crime and savagery will only increase with every Haitian you bring in."

The leader then continued, directly threatening local Haitian residents. He was booted from the meeting.

Though he doesn't seem to have appeared in Springfield this summer, Pohlhaus was part of a 2022 protest in Maine harassing Somali refugees and used his Telegram account to call on "ALL GROUPS AND ORGS" to "HIT SPRINGFIELD, OHIO."

Is there any short explanation as to WHY many Haitians are moving to Springfield?
#11 | Posted by REDIAL

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine pushes back on fake migrant story amplified by Trump: "The internet can be quite crazy"

DeWine defended the thousands of Haitian migrants who are living in Springfield, but noted there are challenges that come with 15,000 migrants settling in city with a population of less than 60,000 in the last couple of years.

"These Haitians came in here to work because there were jobs, and they filled a lot of jobs. And if you talk to employers, they've done a very, very good job and they work very, very hard," he said.

When a Lie Becomes a Bomb Threat: The Fallout of a Racist Conspiracy in Springfield

Trump and Vance's baseless claims about pet-eating Haitian immigrants show how falsehoods spread for political gain can lead to real-world chaos.

It began with a single post in a private Facebook group. An unnamed individual claimed that Haitian immigrants were abducting pets for food. There was no evidence, no credible witnesses--just hearsay from an anonymous user in a small town. Yet, within days, right-wing influencers on platforms like X (formerly Twitter) had taken this baseless claim and run with it. They didn't just repeat it; they embellished it, framing it as a systemic issue tied directly to immigration policy under the Biden-Harris administration.

This was nothing new. We've seen this before: the "birther" movement, the constant "caravans" of immigrants supposedly invading the southern border. The formula is simple: manufacture a crisis, target a minority group, and watch as the lie spreads while benefitting politically. But the speed with which this conspiracy took off, reaching the lips of a former president and his running mate, was alarming. It wasn't just an online conspiracy anymore--it had entered the mainstream.

Trump and Vance, knowing full well that no evidence existed to support the pet-eating immigrant narrative, used the lie strategically. It wasn't about truth--it was about stoking fear, playing into racist anxieties about immigrants and rallying their base around a common enemy. This is a despicable tactic that we've seen before, but the consequences in Springfield were swift and brutal.

People are being harmed in Springfield so that Trump and Vance can promote their racist get out the vote game plan. This part of the story reminds me of what happened to Seth Rich's family after his death once Republicans got a hold of his memory and used it for their heartless poltical purposes:

Nathan Clark--the father of 11-year-old Aiden Clark, who was killed in a car accident in Springfield, Ohio-- tells JD Vance and Donald Trump to stop using his son's name and the city of Springfield to demonize Haitian immigrants. "This needs to stop now!"

The demented orange pedo plans to deport Haitians to Venezuela.
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#27 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

America is truly at a crossroads. Do we want the angry, old, senile, criminal racist, or do we want the hopeful, intelligent, competent, experienced woman of color? That's it. Those are our options.

He's confusing Springfield, OH with Aurora, CO. Either that or he intents to send Haitian immigrants to Venezuela for some reason:

Acyn
@Acyn
Trump: We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio. Large deportations. We're going to get these people out. We're bringing them back to Venezuela