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On 9/14/2024 7:59 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> The claim is so ridiculous that it is funny.

Shut your fat uneducated piehole, you great gross-bellied gasbag!

https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-cat-eaters-of-ohio

Donald Trump shocked audiences at this week’s presidential debate with 
the claim that foreign migrants were eating household pets in 
Springfield, Ohio, a small town currently reeling under the strain of an 
unprecedented number of new arrivals, mostly from Haiti. “They’re eating 
the dogs,” Trump said. “They’re eating the cats.”

Reactions on both sides were spirited. Conservative social media 
accounts created memes that portrayed Trump, dressed in camouflage, and 
toting heavy weapons, as the savior of innocent pets. There was even a 
viral TikTok trend, which chopped up Trump’s speech and set it to dance 
music. “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating cats,” the music 
thumped. “Eat the cat! Eat, eat the cat!”

The establishment media was not amused. During the debate, ABC’s David 
Muir dismissed Trump’s rhetoric with his version of a fact check, citing 
the Springfield city manager’s statement that “there have been no 
credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured, or 
abused by individuals within the immigrant community.” Other 
publications went further, blasting the former president for spreading a 
“racist smear,” a “century-old stereotype,” and a “cat-eating conspiracy 
theory.”

So, is there any truth to the charge? We have conducted an exclusive 
investigation that reveals that, yes, in fact, some migrants in Ohio 
appear to have been “eating the cats,” though not exactly in the manner 
that Trump described.

Our investigation begins in a run-down neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, the 
closest major city to Springfield, about a half-hour’s drive away. We 
identified a social media post, dated August 25, 2023, with a short 
video depicting what appear to be two skinned cats on top of a blue 
barbeque. “Yoooo the Africans wildn on Parkwood,” reads the text, 
referring to Parkwood Drive. The video then pans down to two live cats 
walking across the grass in front of a run-down fence, with a voice on 
the video warning: “There go a cat right there. His ass better get 
missin’, man. Look like his homies on the grill!”


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We spoke with the author of the video, who asked to remain anonymous but 
confirmed its time, location, and authenticity. He told us that he was 
picking up his son last summer, when he noticed the unusual situation. 
“It was some Africans that stay right next door to my kid’s mother,” he 
said. “This African dude next door had the damn cat on the grill.”

We then identified the home by matching it to the visuals in the video 
and cross-referencing them with the eyewitness. When we knocked on the 
door of the first unit, a family answered, telling us they were from the 
Democratic Republic of the Congo and that all of the surrounding units 
were occupied by other African migrants.

One of the residents told us that her former neighbors, also from 
Africa, had lived in the adjacent unit until last month. They had a blue 
grill and the father would find meat in the neighborhood. “Her dad was 
going to find meat,” she said. “Her dad was going, holding a knife.” The 
current residents also showed us a blue grill of the same make and model 
as in the video, which the former neighbors had abandoned after they 
moved out. There were at least ten cats wandering around the complex and 
another resident complained that they were breeding on the property.

According to the original witness, whose son was friendly with the 
neighbors, there was no doubt about what happened last summer. “They was 
barbecuing the damn cat!” he said. His son’s mother had previously 
witnessed the family butchering a mammal on the street, but the cats on 
the barbeque put him in such a state of shock, he felt the need to film it.