Great resource Eagle, A proven liar.
Root is known for spreading
conspiracy theories[3][4][32] and false information.
[33]
Root was a leading proponent of the conspiracy theory that President
Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
[34] Root falsely claimed that Obama was not a student at
Columbia University.
[4] He later stated in a 2012 interview with
Sean Hannity that he believed Obama was a "foreign exchange student" there.
[32] He has repeatedly described Obama as a "Marxist, anti-American, anti-Israel, globalist, middle class-hating, Muslim sympathizer".
[32] In 2017, he claimed that Obama was gay, called him "Bathhouse Barry" and said that he had info from Obama's "friends in Chicago" about his "sordid past".
[32] In 2014, he described Obama as a "Manchurian candidate", possibly hired by the
Bilderberg Group to destroy the United States and "kill all of us".
[32]
Root promoted conspiracy theories around the
murder of Seth Rich, and at various times suggested that
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Hillary Clinton,
Donna Brazile, Bill Clinton,
Eric Schneiderman and
John Podesta were involved in the murder.
[32]
During the white supremacist
Unite the Right rally, Root falsely claimed that blaming white supremacist
James Alex Fields Jr. for killing
Heather Heyer was "such B.S. Probably paid actors & infiltrators hired by
Soros. No conservative I've ever met commits violence. EVER."
[32]
On the night of the
2017 Las Vegas shooting, in which 58 people were shot and killed by
Stephen Paddock (including himself) and 2 of them shot by Paddock later died of their injuries in 2019 and 2020 respectively, Root tweeted: "Clearly coordinated Muslim terror attack." Police later determined only one shooter—a non-religious American—was involved.
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In 2018, Root 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."
[32]
On February 6, 2021,
Twitter permanently suspended the accounts of both Root and founder Jim Hoft of
The Gateway Pundit for violating Twitter rules.
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