Former President Donald Trump went back and forth on Sunday with Fox News host Howard Kurtz about the former’s widespread and debunked claims that Haitian migrants had been eating pets in an Ohio city.
The two sparred on the topic on Sunday’s edition of Media Buzz after the host asked Trump why he would not publicly correct the record that cats and dogs had been consumed en masse by migrants in Springfield, Ohio.
Kurtz said, “I take your point that 15 to 20,000 legal Haitian immigrants settling in that area causes a lot of friction. But when you said, and you know it’s gone viral, ‘They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats.’ You said you were just reporting what had been said.”
Kurtz asked Trump, “But why not say now, ‘Well, look, that turned out not to be true.'” The two discussed the topic in the following exchange:
TRUMP: I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s true or not true.
[CROSSTALK]
TRUMP: I read something –.
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KURTZ: You don’t know if it’s true or not true. It’s been debunked.
TRUMP: Well, what about the goose? The geese? What about the geese? What happened there? They were all missing.
KURTZ: There was one –.
[CROSSTALK]
TRUMP: Howie, I have no idea. I said something. The big problem is that you can’t put 30,000 people into a 50,000-person town or city and expect this city to even survive or do well. What they’ve done to Springfield, Ohio, is very, very unfair. And, I mean, there are a lot of stories. There are a lot of other stories that I’ve heard that had horrible stories, I haven’t said it. Maybe I will. Maybe I won’t. But that’s a story that was reported. And I said that but why don’t you go after the newspaper that wrote it? Don’t don’t, – don’t blame me.
KURTZ: Well, I think it’s been debunked by local officials.
TRUMP: I don’t think it’s been debunked at all. I think nobody talks about it, except you.
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