{"id":14775,"date":"2024-09-19T18:30:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14775"},"modified":"2024-09-19T18:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:30:56","slug":"j-d-vance-promoted-rumors-of-pet-eating-immigrants-even-after-learning-they-were-baseless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14775","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Vance Promoted Rumors of Pet-Eating Immigrants Even After Learning They Were ‘Baseless’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“To justify Vance’s continued promotion of what he himself had described as “rumors” that might not be true, the candidate’s staff on Tuesday gave the Journal<\/em> “a police report in which a resident had claimed her pet might have been taken by Haitian neighbors.” But “when a reporter went to Anna Kilgore’s house Tuesday evening, she said her cat Miss Sassy, which went missing in late August, had actually returned a few days later\u2014found safe in her own basement.” Kilgore, who was “wearing a Trump shirt and hat,” said “she apologized to her Haitian neighbors with the help of her daughter and a mobile-phone translation app.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “cat-eating rumors,” the Journal<\/em> notes, “started with a post by a Springfield woman on a private Facebook page.” That account “turned out to be third-hand” and was “subsequently disavowed by the original poster, according to NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the sort of evidence that Vance apparently had in mind when he told<\/a> CNN’s Dana Bash that his information about pet-eating immigrants “comes from firsthand accounts from my constituents.””<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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J.D. Vance Promoted Rumors of Pet-Eating Immigrants Even After Learning They Were ‘Baseless’<\/a><\/blockquote>