Benny Johnson claims that the Springfield, Ohio “city manager lied to ABC News” about Haitian immigrants

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From the September 18, 2024, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube

BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): This is what's been happening in Ohio. State police in Ohio will conduct daily sweeps after 33 bomb threats. Springfield has become the face of national immigration debate. Springfield officials and local police have disputed claims of Haitians eating animals, although this now turns out — it turns out that the city manager has to admit that there are multiple police reports of this happening. Maybe we should load up that clip just so that we can fact-check ABC News a week late, but, nonetheless, the city manager lied to ABC News. We now know this definitively.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports:

The Vance campaign provided the Wall Street Journal with a police report to prove their claims about cat-eating Haitians in Springfield.



The WSJ spoke to the woman who filed it, who said she later found her cat alive and well in her basement. She also apologized to her Haitian… pic.twitter.com/1ZgFUhWduf

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 18, 2024