Kamala Slams ‘Birther’ Trump for Pet-Eating Immigrant Conspiracies

Kamala Harris gave her most in-depth response yet to Donald Trump’s outlandish claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are kidnapping and dining on families’ cats and dogs, tying the allegations to the former president’s long history with “age-old” racist tropes, including birther conspiracies about President Barack Obama.

“It's a crying shame,” she said during a discussion with members of the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia on Tuesday. “I mean, my heart breaks for this community.”

Trump fanned the flames of the conspiracy theory at his debate with Harris last week, when he said that new arrivals in Springfield were “eating the pets of the people that live there.”

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