Singer-songwriter John Legend took to his Instagram account Thursday following Tuesday’s presidential debate to denounce and debunk former President Trump’s claims that Haitian migrants were eating cats and dogs in Legend’s hometown city of Springfield, Ohio.
While Springfield has seen a significant increase in the number of Haitian migrants arriving in the city, Legend dismissed the viral claims of pet-snatching and -eating.
“Nobody’s eating cats. Nobody’s eating dogs,” he said in a lengthy video while donning a white robe from his Beverly Hills mansion more than 2,200 miles away from Springfield. “The bottom line is these people came to Springfield because there were jobs for them, and they were willing to work.”
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