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 20,000 legal [Haitian immigrants] settling in that area causes a lot of friction,” Kurtz said on his show “MediaBuzz.” “But when you said, and you know it’s gone viral … ‘They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats.’”
“You say [you’re] just reporting what had been said, but why not say now, ‘Well, look, that turned out not to be true,’” Kurtz continued, before Trump cut in.
The former president responded by saying he doesn’t “know if it’s true or not true,” and Kurtz later noted that the Springfield claims have “been debunked.”
Trump remarked that “you can’t put 30,000 people into a 50,000-person town or city and expect this city to even survive or do well.”
“What they’ve done to Springfield, Ohio, is very, very unfair,” Trump said. “And, I mean, [there are] a lot of stories, there are a lot of other stories that I’ve heard that are horrible … haven’t said it. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t, but that’s a story that was reported, and I said that. Why don’t you go after the newspaper that wrote it?”
Trump was on @HowardKurtz's #Mediabuzz today. Fox viewers are furiously tweeting at Kurtz, accusing him of hating Trump, having "TDS" (Trump Derangement Syndrome, etc. Why are they so mad? Because he gently corrected some of Trump's false claims. This clip is emblematic.. pic.twitter.com/j8JYgC45hy
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 20, 2024
During a presidential debate against Vice President Harris last month, Trump falsely claimed Haitian migrants are “eating the dogs” in the Ohio city.
Mediaite reports later, Kurtz and Trump discussed Jan. 6 in greater detail. During one moment, Trump claimed a “small group” of people “went down to the Capitol” and were welcomed in by police. He added the day was one of “beauty” and “love.”
Kurtz pushed back, commenting the day was “very violent” and that many police officers were assaulted. Trump said that his supporters were in Washington that day to peacefully protest a “stolen” election.
Before Fox News cut to an ad break, Kurtz told his viewers, “To clarify, police did not usher protesters into the Capitol. They were totally overrun, though in some cases, they may have beaten a tactical retreat. Donald Trump continues to argue, as you know, that the last election was rigged, though that’s never been proven in any of the lawsuits filed.”
On Sunday, Trump faced a friendly town hall event in Lancaster, where the president spent more than an hour fielding questions and making his closing pitch to voters just 16 days before Election Day.
Much of the conversation, moderated by ex-sportscaster Sage Steele, centered on immigration, his proposal to eliminate taxes on tips, and energy production. Questions included, “What is your plan to lower taxes?” and “How soon will the wall get finished?”
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