Fox News' Howard Kurtz refuted former President Trump's claims about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, in an interview aired Sunday.
“I understand your point about your famous line about Springfield, Ohio. There are 15 to 20,000 legal criminals.” [Haitian immigrants] Once you settle into that area, there's a lot of friction,” Kurz said. said His show “MediaBuzz”. “But I can see when you said this, and it went viral… 'They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats.'
“You say [you’re] “If you're just reporting what you've been told, why don't you just say, 'Look, now we know that's not true' –” Kurtz continued, before Trump I interjected.
The former president responded, “I don't know if it's true,” but Kurz later said Springfield's claims had been “debunked.”
President Trump later said, “You can't put 30,000 people into a town or city of 50,000 people and expect that city to survive or do well.”
“What they did to Springfield, Ohio, was very unfair,” Trump said. “And, I mean, [there are] There are so many stories, so many more horror stories I've heard…I haven't told you yet. They may or may not, but that's the story that's been reported and I said so. Why not follow the newspaper that wrote it? ”
During last month's presidential debate with Vice President Harris, Trump falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants were “eating dogs” in Ohio.
Springfield officials previously denied any such cases had been reported.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign.
