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Tim Ryan tore into Donald Trump and JD Vance on Wednesday over their smears about migrants in Springfield.
The former Ohio congressman, who was defeated by Vance in his 2022 Senate race, was asked about what was happening in Springfield during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. His time on the air came the day after a Haitian nonprofit group announced it had filed charges against the GOP nominees over their baseless claims that migrants in the city are eating residents’ cats and dogs.
“It’s tragic,” Ryan said of what’s happening to Springfield, where bomb threats have forced schools to close since the conspiracy theories erupted. He acknowledged there had been “some issues” with local migrants related to housing and health care but said they’d been a “net positive” and that “the community love these Haitian immigrants who came.”
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