Donald “ They’re eating the dogs ” Trump and JD “ Pet abduction ” Vance were hit with criminal charges this week over their repeated insistence that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are stealing and eating people’s pets—a claim for which there is zero evidence, as they’ve been told over and over.

Springfield, Ohio, city officials declined to take a call with Sen. JD Vance over unsubstantiated claims, promoted by the Trump campaign, that Haitian migrants were terrorizing the community by eating pets.