The last time we checked in on Wayne Allyn Root, he was getting unceremoniously dumped by Newsmax as a columnist and TV host for downplaying the coronavirus pandemic while also pushing a scammy coronavirus treatment so questionable that a state attorney general sent him a cease-and-desist order. Working his way down the ConWeb food chain, it’s probably no surprise that he ended up at a place a little more tolerant of his shenanigans: WorldNetDaily.
WND had previously published Root off and on for years, and his last appearance had been in 2016. But starting Dec. 14, WND began publishing Root’s weekly column. In his Dec. 21 column, Root had a meltdown over Dr. Anthony Fauci’s call to restrict holiday gatherings to reduced the spread of coronavirus:
I have a message for Dr Fauci: “First, not just no. HELL NO. This is America. This is a free country. If we want to celebrate Christmas, we will. If we want to go to church, we will. If we want to spend the holidays with our children, we will. We’re adults. We make our own decisions. This isn’t a nanny state. It’s not the Soviet Union. It’s not Nazi Germany. We don’t need government bureaucrats telling us what to do, how to live our lives or how to spend the holidays.”
Second, you’re a typical Ivy League egghead. You’re too smart for your own good. You have IQ but clearly no emotional intelligence. And certainly no common sense.
“Third, how can I say this nicely? SCREW YOU. I love my family. I love my children. I love Christmas. I don’t know you. I don’t owe you. And I don’t answer to you.”
From there, Root gravitated toward election fraud conspiracy theories:
- On Dec. 28, Root declared that “Democrats cheated and stole this election, without punishment (so far)” and that President Trump must come back now because “the 2024 election will not matter, simply because America won’t exist in 2024 – not the America we know now. Democrats will destroy that America. Trust me, this will be a foreign country by 2024.”
- On Jan. 4, Root cited a guy he identified only as “Richie” whom he said had experience fixing horse races declare that the 2020 presidential election was “the greatest scam and steal in world history,” adding, “He says anyone who denies this election was stolen is a criminal who was in on the scam, a bribed politician or bureaucrat who benefits from the scam, or a completely naive moron.”
Root began his Jan. 11 column by complaining that he was the victim of media bias because “called for a Trump car parade to celebrate President Donald Trump and show the media how we felt about the obviously stolen election” in his hometown of Las Vegas and “was barely a mention on any local TV news program, no mention in the Vegas newspaper.” Actually, the Las Vegas newspaper was owned at the time by conservative financier Sheldon Adelson, who would have no motivation to suppress such news. He went on to rant that “the jealous media and D.C. swamp conspired to demonize Trump and his supporters,” adding: “These D.C. swamp insiders are all green with envy. They hate and resent Trump. They hate and resent the middle class and the Silent Majority for loving Trump. They hate their own base. Great job, guys. Now we hate you back.”
On Jan. 18, Root played whataboutism on the Capitol riots:
Trump has had hundreds of rallies for six years now. Millions have attended, maybe 20 million-plus. And there’s never been one window broken, one property damaged, one person shot, one police officer attacked. Yet after one incident in D.C., it’s used as a trigger to ban and censor mention of the fact that the election was clearly stolen; to ban, censor and impeach President Trump; to ban and censor conservatives; and to label all 74 million Trump voters as “domestic terrorists.” There’s the scam: Cover up hundreds of violent Antifa and Black Lives Matter incidents, and blow out of proportion this one incident of violence at a conservative event involving around 170 people out of 74 million, 170 who made a bad decision in the heat of the moment. That’s assuming it wasn’t Antifa causing the small amount of violence.
He then declared that “GOP leaders only represent the D.C. swamp. They don’t represent 74 million Trump voters.”