Fox News’s Howard Kurtz pushed back on former President Trump’s claims about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, during an interview Sunday. “Your famous line about Springfield, Ohio, and I take your point that 15 to 20,

The issue dominated the airwaves for several weeks after his debate with Kamala Harris. A group of Haitian immigrants based in California, the Haitian Bridge Alliance, filed charges against the former president and JD Vance for disrupting public services and making false alarms as a result of the claims.

During an interview on “Media Buzz” that aired on Sunday, Kurtz asked Trump why he would not publicly set the record straight that migrants hadn’t chowed down on slews of cats and dogs in the city like he irresponsibly claimed.

Fox News host Howard Kurtz argued with former President Donald Trump over "debunked" claims that Haitians were eating the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio. During an interview that aired on Sunday,

Springfield, Ohio, they have 50,000, 52,000 people, no problems, no real crime, beautiful community. They just dropped 30,000 illegal aliens in Springfield, Ohio, and it's become a different place. We're going to destroy our country.

The lie that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating local pets was signal-boosted into the Trump campaign by Trump's running mate JD Vance. He has refused to back away from the story even as it has been debunked by local police and the city's mayor. Vance has said he was " creating a story " to call attention to immigration policy.