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    Springfield, Ohio bomb threats: Hold the hysteria ‘til we have some facts

    By Post Editorial Board,

    5 hours ago

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    Somebody’s been emailing bomb threats to schools and town offices in Springfield, Ohio — and the rush is on to pin the blame on Donald Trump.

    Because: Why wait for hard facts when there’s a chance to shout “Orange man bad”?

    Thursday morning emails went “to multiple agencies and media outlets” in Springfield, per the City Commission office.

    On Friday, more threats showed in the inboxes of a few city commissioners and a municipal employee, plus City Hall, three schools, and the local Motor Vehicle and License bureau, said city spokeswoman Karen Graves.

    2nd day of bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio shutter schools — as tensions rise over migrant influx

    The internet’s been Springfield-wild all week, of course, with the grabbiest gossip centering on Haitian migrants supposedly eating local pets, or at least wild geese.

    But behind that is hard news: The town of 58,000 is dealing with an influx of up to 20,000 Haitian migrants admitted by the Harris-Biden administration under the Temporary Protected Status program, which this White House (like the Obama one before it) has invoked to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of folks fleeing various countries in collapse.

    And of course Trump went big with the rumors during Tuesday’s debate , while his running-mate J.D. Vance has talked about all the issues.

    Neo-Nazi livestreamed threats to blow up NYC Jewish hospitals: prosecutors

    City officials admit the influx has stressed housing, health care and school resources; our own reporter on the ground found locals worried about migrants violating traffic laws , with at least two fatalities so far — one of them a schoolchild whose bus got run off the road, another a grandma violently slammed by a car with expired plates.

    In short, it’s a legitimate national story even if all the memes have amplified attention.

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    (Though we’re pretty sure most people are just using it as an excuse for jokes, including all the “my pet reacts” videos .)

    As for the bomb threats: It could be a local; Springfield’s seen at least one furious town meeting amid this crisis, and whoever did this at least researched some names no outsider would know.

    Yes, it may be an out-of-towner, though even then the motive or political alignment could be anywhere on the spectrum: Crazies come in all shapes and sizes.

    The FBI’s trying to trace the emails; we should at least see what it reports before jumping to conclusions.

    America’s media don’t seem to have trouble finding plenty else to wax hysterical about.

    For top headlines, breaking news and more, visit nypost.com.

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