What’s happening in Springfield, Ohio — are folks eating animals or not? During a recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers look at the trouble being reported and how the media’s reaction is distracting from serious immigrant scandals across the country.
“The background on the story is that there are residents who have claimed at city council meetings that people are eating ducks. There was a police report, I believe, from Springfield that the Haitians had taken a cat. And the person believes they were eating the cat. I mean, here is David Muir actually letting us know he phoned the city manager in Ohio,” Schweizer said, before rolling a clip of Muir’s “fact-check” from the debate.
Donald Trump: "In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're eating the cats."
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David Muir: "ABC News did reach out the the city manager there. He told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed…" pic.twitter.com/sJRQIWlGPd
— The ReidOut (@thereidout) September 11, 2024
The only trouble is, there are police reports of Haitian immigrants gathering up geese — like this call made to the Clark County Communications Center in Springfield, OH.
“I’m riding on the trail going to my orientation for my job today, and I see a group of Haitian people,” one caller says. “There were about four of them. They all had geese in their hand. They got away. I couldn’t make out the first three on the license plate, but I got the numbers. The last numbers was nine, eight, nine, eight, and it was a gray Toyota Tacoma.”
Schweizer continues: “The point is by David Muir saying ‘I called the city manager’ — who, by the way, is in charge of the refugee program — that is not deep dive investigative journalism. And then because he talked to the city manager, he presents that as fact … it just shows you how terrible American journalism is today.”
Eggers said that the cat story is almost beside the point.
“A population of 60,000 people. 20,000 migrants have been located there in the last four years — a massive influx in increase in crime, other types of issues there — not the least of which, I mean, whether you think cat eating is happening or not, what happened is an 11-year-old boy died when a Haitian immigrant lost control of a minivan he was driving and crashed into a bus.”
“And the point of it’s not about cats, it’s about the immigrant influx into this country that the Biden-Harris administration have overseen. That was a serious issue,” Eggers added.
The mainstream media are dismissing Trump’s exposing of the Haitian crisis as a “racist dog whistle” — watch Eggers and Schweizer push back on that narrative.
Watch the clip above.
