Republican governor Mike DeWine deploys highway patrol to Springfield school district after at least 33 bomb threats
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Ohio’s governor is deploying the Ohio state highway patrol to provide security to schools in the city of Springfield in response to more than 30 bomb threats the schools have received since former president Donald Trump repeated false claims about Haitian immigrants in the city eating people’s pets during the presidential debate last week.
In a statement Governor Mike DeWine, a Republican, said that many of the bomb threats were coming in from overseas, “made by those who want to fuel the current discord surrounding Springfield”.