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And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it has – false accusations of killing pets have become the latest issue at the centre of American political debates. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump began by making false accusations about Haitian migrants killing and eating pets in Ohio during his debate with Democratic rival Kamala Harris. However, on September 12, Democratic supporters online started making claims of their own – that Trump’s running mate JD Vance killed his family’s cat. There’s even an article from the fact-checking website PolitiFact that verifies the story. However, it turns out, that the fact-checking article is fake. PolitiFact never published that article.