JD Vance Spreads Outrageous Lie About Haitian Immigrants

Former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance have made anti-immigrant hate the centerpiece of their campaign for the White House, and that campaign stooped to a new low Monday.

On X, formerly Twitter, Vance amplified bogus “reports” that “people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country.”

First of all, the claim is false: There are no credible reports that “people who shouldn’t be in this country” are eating pets. It bubbled up from the depths of right-wing internet spaces directly to the X account for the Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee.

Second, the false claim is part of Trump and his supporters’ yearslong pattern of painting immigrants with a broad brush as rapists and murders , even invoking the fictional film ” Gangs of New York ″ and the fictional serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter — whom Trump has invoked nonstop in recent months to describe immigrants.

These claims about immigrants being especially prone to crime run counter to all available data , which show that immigrants break fewer laws than Americans who were born here.

The lies are all part of Trump and Vance’s justification for pitching a “ mass deportation ” of millions of people, which by their and their advisers ’ own admission would involve a “ bloody ” police state and huge processing camps .

What Is Vance Actually Talking About?

The Trump campaign did not respond to HuffPost’s questions. But it appears Vance was responding to a collection of rumors and baseless internet posts related to immigrants living in Ohio — all breathlessly amplified by Trump-aligned social media accounts.

In one instance, a social media post purportedly from Springfield, Ohio, that’s been making the