Wayne Allyn Root had been in meltdown mode ever since Kamala Harris ascended to become the Democratic presidential nominee. As the debate between her and Donald Trump — for whom Root is such a shameless suck-up — the derangement continued, touting in his Sept. 7 WorldNetDaily column:
President Trump has a debate coming up Tuesday night with Kamala Harris. Here is the shortest advice I’ve ever given.
Steve Jobs, the visionary and billionaire founder of Apple, followed this principle: Always KISS – Keep It Simple, Stupid!
Begin the debate, and end the debate, and every chance you get in between, too, by painting a picture with these questions.
These are all loaded variants on the “Are you better off today than four years ago?” trope. Root then assumed Trump’s voice, with additional embellishments:
Kamala says she’s “the change candidate.” She is right. She changed all of the safety, security and prosperity that I produced as president into this terrible hot mess, this terrible disaster, this terrible nightmare we are all experiencing.
And yes, she is the “change candidate” in another way: The inflation caused by the reckless policies of Biden-Kamala Harris administration has left you with “change.” For every dollar you had when I was president, now you have 70 cents – if you’re lucky.
How can she be “the change” when it’s her Biden-Harris administration that caused this nightmare?
How can she be “the change” when she caused the problems?
If she has any solutions for this disaster, why didn’t she implement them at any time over the past four years? She’s the one in power. She’s the one running the country. She could implement them right now.
She has no answers. She has no solutions. She feels your pain, because she’s the one causing it!
I was your president when America was prosperous and safe and your border secure, and inflation was 0, and interest rates were among the lowest ever, and your energy bills were low, and your grocery bills were low, and crime was low. and we had peace all over the world.
Life was good … and it can be again. With President Donald J. Trump!
That’s all President Trump has to say and do: Paint a picture of four years ago versus today. Keep repeating the questions. Let the voters decide. Everyone with a brain will understand.
In fact, inflation was not at zero under Trump, and it has not been at 30 percent under Biden.
After the debate, Root used his Sept. 14 column to spin his version of a conspiracy theory about the debate moderators colluding with Harris (though not quite the same false one his fellow WND writers have embraced) while also humble-bragging about his relationship with Trump:
Clearly, only two things happened before Tuesday night’s presidential debate:
Either Kamala’s best friends who run ABC gave her all the questions in advance of the debate … or Team Kamala gave the questions they wanted asked to ABC.
I told President Donald Trump the exact same thing right after the debate. What happened Tuesday wasn’t normal. More importantly, Kamala’s debate performance wasn’t possible – not without a lot of help from her friends.
[…]In the middle of my debate party at my home, with my wife and friends standing around me, 10 minutes after the debate ended, my phone rang, and it was President Trump.
In all of America, out of 330 million people, I may be the only one who got a post-debate call from the 45th president of the United States. He wanted to hear what I thought about the debate.
I told him he won – because no matter how negative the questions, no matter how vicious and biased the moderators, no matter how hateful Kamala was … in the end, all that matters are the four issues most middle-class Americans care about.
And you won on those all night long: the economy, inflation, crime and the open border disaster.
All the rest is B.S. and will be forgotten.
Sounds more like Trump called Root (if that indeed actually happened) because he knew Root would be a total suck-up to him no matter what actually happened — indeed, a conservatives such as Andy McCarthy, Frank Luntz, Karl Rove and even Robert Kennedy Jr., as well as a Fox News voter panel, believe that Trump lost the debate. Root didn’t mention that, of course — he’s a sycophantic yes-man who will tell Trump what he wants to hear instead of the truth.
Root added, “I was proven right the next morning when the most accurate pollster in America, Patrick Basham of the Democracy Institute, released his post-debate poll. Trump won 45% to 34%, with 21% saying it was a draw.” Basham has also endorsed Trump’s bogus claims of election fraud, so maybe he’s not as “accurate” as Root wants you to believe he is. Root then returned to his conspiracy theory:
Trump won because he hit a home run on the only four issues that matter to most Americans.
But it was not the knockout punch we all wanted.
Not because of anything he did. Trump was fine. He always wins – at least with the audience that matters: the American middle class. But because Kamala cheated. She clearly got the questions in advance.
You’d have to be blind, deaf, dumb or delusional not to see that. Because Kamala performed so perfectly in every response, it was like she knew the questions for a week, and rehearsed and memorized a response to each.
That’s because she did.
Her best friends run ABC. She wasn’t just good in the debate; she was too good to be true. She never hesitated. You know why I know this was all rigged for her?
Kamala is as dumb as a doorknob. Dumb as a box of rocks. Perhaps the worst speaker I’ve ever seen at the highest levels of American politics. The worst in history. We’ve all watched her clueless word salads and stupid cackling responses for four years.
She’s so bad that only two weeks before Biden resigned from the race and she was handed the nomination without one vote, I heard that a top Biden fundraiser told a crowd, “Joe Biden in a coma, or even dead, is a better candidate than Kamala alive.”
She’s so bad that she has been placed in the government witness protection program for seven weeks since she got the job. Not one press conference. Only one friendly interview – and she was terrible at that.
Yet for this one night she had the perfect answer for every question. Like they opened her brain and inserted Obama’s brain. How is that possible?
Unsurprisingly, Root offered absolutely no evidence to back up his claims. He went on to whine that Trump was fact-checked (because he lied so much):
If you listen to only Trump’s responses, he was excellent. He did well enough to win a decisive victory.
But now listen to only Kamala’s responses. She always had the perfect answer or comeback. How is that possible, if she is so incompetent that Biden ignored her for four years, if I heard that 92% of her staff quit because she is a train wreck and now her own campaign team has placed her in witness protection? They’re afraid of her opening her mouth.
Now we add in the rigged ABC moderators. Every question was designed to hurt Trump and help Kamala. They threw grenades at him all night and lobbed softballs at her. Three against one!
They fact-checked him. Everything she said was a lie. Yet no fact-checks. And the disruptions! Every time Trump tried to respond to Kamala’s lies, they interrupted him to change the topic.
It’s truly amazing. The moderators asked Trump about a rigged 2020 election … while they were busy rigging the 2024 debate.
The questions themselves were part of the rig too.
Abortion, Jan. 6, was the 2020 election stolen? What is Kamala’s race? Climate change and Obamacare. ABC made sure the debate was fought on her strongest ground. Talk about home field advantage!
Root concluded with another conspiratorial rant:
Folks, the debate was rigged.
My closing statement to President Trump: You won. But it should have been a knockout that ended the election. They rigged it, to keep it close, to keep her in it. Now they’ll try to steal it five days after Election Day.
P.S. I heard a rumor that an ABC employee is about to become a whistleblower and say ABC sent her the questions in advance … and promised her no fact-checks.
It’s time for investigations. Everyone involved at ABC needs to be fired and banned from the media industry for life.
Again, he refused to prove anything he said. For his Sept. 27 column, Root helped justify Trump’s petulant refusal to have another debate with Harris by rehashing his conspiracy theory:
President Donald Trump has no reason to do another debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on CNN – or anywhere else for that matter – because she cheats. These debates are rigged.
In the first debate, ABC clearly gave Harris the questions in advance. Then she rehearsed answers based on lie after lie (like an actress memorizing a script) – and ABC refused to fact-check a single lie. Any debate Trump does with Kamala will be based on the same lies and cheating.
Debating Kamala is like trying to win a rigged craps game.
Again, Root couldn’t be bothered to back up anything he said. Instead, he proposed a stunt for Trump to perform:
But here’s the one debate format Trump needs to do. Trump will clinch the election with this format: Trump needs to debate Kamala Harris the dummy – and by that I mean a wooden dummy that looks like Kamala.
As opposed to the real Kamala, who is also a dummy. She’s as dumb as a doorknob – unless she is getting the questions in advance.
[…]Here’s my creative idea: Team Trump needs to buy up TV infomercial time on every television network in America. And then present a fair and honest debate called …
“Trump vs. the REAL Kamala Harris.”
Trump stands behind one podium. A life-size Kamala dummy stands behind the other. Then, start each segment of the debate with Kamala on video. Let her use her own words, on video, to present her REAL opinions and policies.
She can’t hide her own words in this debate. She can’t lie. She can’t claim she’s being misrepresented. These are her actual radical and extreme Marxist views on video over the years.
For each topic, we watch Kamala on video. Then Trump gets his chance to respond to what we just saw with our own eyes.
These are Kamala’s actual opinions on video.
[…]I’ll be glad to moderate. At this point, I’d end the debate and say, “Thank you to President Trump and Kamala Harris the dummy. Goodnight from Las Vegas.”
Game over. Trump wins the election in a landslide once voters understand what the REAL Kamala Harris believes in. And once they realize the real Kamala Harris is as dumb, clueless and incompetent as Kamala the dummy.
Of course, Harris could easily do thet same with the numerous inflammatory and insulting things Trump has said over the years to demonstrate the “real” Trump. But Root isn’t going to mention that, let alone volunteer as a moderator.