During the white supremacist Unite the Right rally , Root falsely claimed that the white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. who killed Heather Heyer was " such B.S. Probably paid actors & infiltrators hired by Soros . No conservative I ’ve ever met commits violence . EVER . " Root tweeted in the aftermath of the 2017 attack in Las Vegas " This is a real thing . Clearly Coordinated Muslim Terror attack . PRAY for our Vegas police . PRAY for victims . VERY bad . Awful . " It was later confirmed that the shooter was 64-year-old Mesquite , Nevada , resident Stephen Paddock . Root then defended his original claim by tweeting " Terrible day . Liberal fools criticizing me 4 reporting what I hear DIRECT from police & credible news sources . I report it as I hear it . " Root has argued that Special Counsel Robert Mueller 's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election is motivated by " penis envy " , because " Mueller ’s is smaller than Trump ’s . "
2017 attack in Las Vegas
2017 Las Vegas shooting
Wayne Allyn Root