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Former President Donald Trump quipped during a campaign speech this week that he might not return from a planned visit to Springfield, Ohio, a reference to the large population of Haitian migrants who have been sent there by the Biden-Harris administration over the past several years.

Trump’s remark came after the Secret Service thwarted what the FBI said was a second attempt on his life on Sunday at his Palm Beach golf course. In July, the former president’s right ear was grazed by a bullet fired by would-be assassin Thomas Crooks, 20, who was subsequently shot and killed by a countersniper team during a Butler, Pa., rally. One attendee was killed, and two others were wounded in that attack.

“How about in Springfield, Ohio?” the ex-president told the crowd in New York. “They had 32,000 [people]. This is a little beautiful town. No crime. No problem. Thirty-two thousand illegal immigrants come into the town.”

“So, they almost doubled their population in a period of a few weeks,” he continued. “Can you believe it? And you know what? They’ve got to get much tougher. I’m gonna go there in the next two weeks. I’m going to Springfield and I’m going to Aurora. You may never see me again! But that’s ok. Gotta do what I got to do. Whatever happened to Trump? Well, he never got out of Springfield.”

Anyone who is fair knows that Trump was joking about the subject matter:

Ohio GOP Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, took CNN host Kaitlin Collins to task earlier this week when she attempted to shame him over claims from several of his constituents that they have witnessed Haitian migrants capturing and consuming pets and other wildlife in a mid-sized city in his state.

The claims from Springfield, Ohio, residents have also sparked several creative memes that have been shared online—another point that Collins brought up as Vance recommended that journalists investigate the reports in the city.

Collins brought the issue up after Trump mentioned it during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Why push something that’s not true?” the CNN reporter said, regarding “this misleading, false claim,” adding that city officials in Springfield have denied that the incidents were taking place.

But Vance countered, noting that “a number of constituents on the ground … both firsthand and secondhand reports” have said that there most definitely have been abductions of some pets. He also noted that city officials have not said the claims are untrue, but rather, “they’ve said they don’t have all the evidence.”

Vance then said that journalists should be curious enough about the reports to go and find out for themselves, a point that was apparently lost on the CNN host. The Ohio Republican then noted that no one in the media cared about the plight of American citizens in the city and only began to discuss it following the reports of pets and wildlife being eaten.

The real issue, beyond those reports, Vance said, is that a surge of illegal migrants into small and mid-sized American cities for years under the Biden-Harris administration is rarely discussed by the media.

“Whether those exact rumors turn out to be mostly true, somewhat true,  whatever the case may be, Kaitlan, this town has been ravaged by 20,000 migrants coming in. Health care costs are up. Housing costs are up. Communicable diseases like HIV and TB have skyrocketed in this small Ohio town. This is what Kamala Harris’s border policies have done,” he said, referencing Harris’ ‘border czar’ post she was given by Biden.

That led Collins to ask a condescending question. “If someone calls your office and says they saw Bigfoot, that doesn’t mean they saw Bigfoot,” she said before inquiring as to why Trump and Vance would allegedly “promote false information?”

Vance responded: “I have a responsibility as a United States senator — I think the media has a responsibility as an institution that cares about truth — to actually take people seriously when they say their lives have been ruined by this migrant crisis.”

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