Shameless JD Vance Doubles Down on Bonkers Cat-Eating Migrants Conspiracy
JD Vance on Tuesday doubled down on his xenophobic claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio, insisting that while the specifics of a bizarre conspiracy theory about pet-eating migrants he endorsed may “turn out to be false,” it represents the real danger they supposedly pose to “suffering Americans.”
Recent viral claims about Haitian immigrants abducting and eating pets—cats, ducks, and geese—in Springfield, Ohio, have been seized upon and amplified by Vance and other Republican lawmakers in recent days.
The senator and Republican nominee for vice president tweeted on Monday that he’d previously raised the issue of “Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield.” He added, “Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country.”