The town of Springfield has seen some three dozen bomb threats as it endures being the centre of Republican-boosted conspiracy theories about immigration, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said Monday. Racist rumours, amplified by top Republicans including presidential candidate Donald Trump, have falsely said that the town’s Haitian immigrant community is stealing and eating people’s pets and causing a crime wave.
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