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UTUSN

(70,652 posts)
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:38 AM Aug 2019

Great career move, now *everybody* knows who "Wayne Allyn ROOT" is!1

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root

Wayne Allyn Root

(born July 20, 1961) is an American conservative author, radio host and conspiracy theorist. He is the host of The Wayne Allyn Root Show on the USA Radio Network and Newsmax TV.[1] Root is an opinion columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.[2]

Root was the Vice Presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party in the 2008 presidential election. In 2012, he left the Libertarian Party and re-joined the Republican Party. ....

Root was the opening speaker for Donald Trump's rally in Las Vegas in late October 2016 during the presidential campaign. At the rally, Root, suggested that he wished ill upon Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, hoping they met the same ending as Thelma and Louise.[3] The lead characters in the film take their own lives by driving off a cliff. In his speech, Root said "Trump warriors" armed with "pitchforks, jack hammers and blow torches" would violently take over Washington D.C.: "We're coming to tear it down. We're coming to rip it up. We're coming to kick your ass. And we're coming to put you in prison", he said referring to a fantasy he had about Clinton and Abedin. Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager, later told CNN that Root's "conduct is completely unacceptable and does not reflect our campaign or our candidate".[24] ....

He 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.[5]

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."[5] ....

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."[5] ....


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UTUSN

(70,652 posts)
6. Thanks, but I couldn't find it in all of that scrolling!1 Gentle request: Editing, please?!1
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 11:06 AM
Aug 2019

***********ON EDIT: Sorry, my bad. I thought the scrolling was in the post itself. It's only in the link, so THANKS!1






nolabear

(41,938 posts)
7. I looked at his Twitter. His tweets typically get a dozen replies.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 11:11 AM
Aug 2019

We’ll see if the publicity boosts that, but he’s nobody.

Laurian

(2,593 posts)
8. Yep. I had to look him up.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 11:16 AM
Aug 2019

I’d never heard of him. I guess he’s distinguishing himself as a top tier deplorable.

UTUSN

(70,652 posts)
11. "distinguishing himself" for a job with SHITLER - prolly ambassador to Denmark!1
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 11:50 AM
Aug 2019

Last edited Wed Aug 21, 2019, 01:50 PM - Edit history (1)

Kingofalldems

(38,425 posts)
10. I remember when he was a slicky boy football gambling ass.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 11:23 AM
Aug 2019

He had an infomercial TV show where he hawked a weekly tipsheet he put out--at a price of course.

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