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 Scott Kowalchyk/CBSDonald Trump and JD Vance's relentless pushing of the debunked pet-eating conspiracy is not just meant not "distract" the public, but also to "disgust us," said MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday.
Maddow stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, where she explained why she thinks the former president won't stop pushing the narrative that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are "eating cats and dogs," despite the fact that "the Republican mayor of that city says ‘stop it, it's not true, it's not happening.'"
Trump and Vance's reasoning comes down to "two things," Maddow told Colbert. "First of all, I think it's helpful to note that this is a recurring racist urban legend that happens every few decades from the late 1970s through the late 1980s," she explained. "There were multiple instances of ‘Refugees Eating Dogs And Cats.' They've used this against Haitians before, they've used this against Indonesians, they've used this against Southeast Asian refugees."
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