SCOTT Baio has been slammed for re-tweeting a “truther” meme suggesting the death of Heather Heyer at a Virginia rally was a hoax put on by the same “crisis actors” used in the Sandy Hook school massacre.
Jillian Soto, the sister of slain Sandy Hook teacher Vicki Soto, blasted the former Happy Days actor for his re-tweet, saying he was “encouraging hateful behaviour”.
“We are deeply disappointed that someone who has such a large audience would use that audience to target victims families,” Ms Soto wrote on Facebook.
On Thursday, Baio re-tweeted a meme of Ms Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, and Ms Soto’s mother, Donna Soto, that suggested they were the same person.
Following backlash, Baio deleted the tweet and apologised to the Soto family.
“My retweets are not endorsements, but having said that, this is one I wish I hasn’t send,” he tweeted.
In September 2014, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who runs the website InfoWars, sensationally claimed that no one died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012 and the victims were “child actors”.
Just two weeks ago, Ms Heyer lost her life while protesting in Charlottesville, Virginia against white nationalists at their Unite the Right rally.
Trump supporter Baio came under fire in April for saying his former Happy Days co-star, Erin Moran, died from a heroin overdose.
Baio told New York’s WABC radio that he was “shocked, but not completely shocked” about Moran’s death, before saying that “if you do drugs or drink, you’re going to die.”
“She was just an insecure human being and fell into this world of drugs and alcohol,” he said.
An autopsy report later revealed Moran died naturally from complications of stage 4 cancer, not illegal drugs.
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