Last night, John Oliver went into great detail about how JD Vance created the Springfield, Ohio pet-eating panic out of "nothing" -- and Vance knew it. Via the Daily Beast: “It turns out not long after his first post about Haitians eating pets, his campaign actually called the Springfield city manager, who remembers Vance’s staff asked point-blank: ‘Are the rumors true of pets being taken and eaten?’ and he said: ‘I told him no.’” Oliver added: “So Vance knew it was a lie this whole time.