Wayne Allyn Root

Wayne Allyn Root (born July 20, 1961) is an American conservative television and radio host, author, activist, conservative political commentator and conspiracy theorist.

He is the host of two new television shows, daily at 7 PM ET on Lindell TV network (FrankSpeech.com) and Saturdays at Noon ET "America's Top Ten Countdown with Wayne Allyn Root" on Real America's Voice TV Network.

He is also the radio host of "Wayne Allyn Root: Raw & Unfiltered" on AM 670 in Las Vegas and nationally-syndicated on the USA Radio Network, and formerly on Newsmax TV.

Root was an opinion columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

His newspaper columns are currently nationally syndicated on Sundays by Creators Syndicate.

Root worked for WNBC radio (now WFAN) in the early 1980s.

Root attended the Thornton-Donovan School in New Rochelle, New York and was a member of the class of 1983 at Columbia University, studying pre-law and political science.

He ran for a seat on the Westchester County Board of Legislators in 1983.

From 1989 to 1991, he worked with the Financial News Network before its subsumption into CNBC.

Root was founder and chairman of Winning Edge International Inc. In the 2000s, he hosted Wayne Allyn Root's Winning Edge, a television show which promoted Root's sports handicapping operation.

Root co-hosted King of Vegas on Spike TV.

He produced Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel.

Root had been a longtime Republican Party member and supporter who self-identified as a Libertarian Republican.

In 2007, Root ended his association with the Republican Party and joined the Libertarian Party.

On May 4, 2007, Root declared his candidacy for the Libertarian Party's 2008 presidential nomination.

Root was the vice presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party in the 2008 presidential election.

On May 25, 2008, Root advanced to the fifth ballot of the Libertarian Party presidential nomination vote at the 2008 Libertarian National Convention before being eliminated and endorsing Bob Barr, who became the party's presidential nominee.

Root then became the Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee, securing the nod in the third round of voting for that nomination.

Though in the same graduating class as Barack Obama at Columbia University, Root has stated on a number of occasions that he has no recollection of having met or seen Obama at Columbia.

He has claimed that this alleged lack of eyewitnesses to Obama's presence at Columbia is highly "suspicious" and should be "a cause for great concern."

Root's book outlining his libertarian views, The Conscience of a Libertarian, was published in 2009.

In 2010, Root ran for the position of chair of the Libertarian National Committee of the Libertarian Party.

He was defeated by Mark Hinkle by a vote of 228–281 in the third round.

He subsequently succeeded in being elected to the Libertarian National Committee as an at-large member.

In 2012, he left the Libertarian Party, rejoined the Republican Party, and endorsed and voted for Mitt Romney and Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.

He has remained a staunch supporter of Trump.

Root is the CEO of the publicly traded penny stock company VegasWinners.com, (WNRS symbol) who recently partnered with the MGM Hotel's BetMGM.

At the 2012 Libertarian National Convention, Root again was elected to the Libertarian National Committee as an At-Large Member, despite being seen by some LP members as being part of the "top-down faction."

The party's 2012 presidential candidate and former Republican New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson endorsed Root.

In September 2012, Root resigned all Libertarian Party positions, re-joined the Republican Party and endorsed Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.

He predicted Romney would win the election against incumbent president Barack Obama, citing, among other factors, that the "Enthusiasm Factor" for Romney was "huge".

In June 2016, Root described himself as a "Jew turned Evangelical Christian".

As of November 2016, Root described himself as Jewish, and says he considers Donald Trump to be the first Jewish president, in the same sense that Bill Clinton was often called the "first black president".

Root had announced that he intended to run as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nevada in 2016, for the seat held by retiring Democratic Senator Harry Reid.

However, he did not run.

He supported and voted for Republican nominee Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election and 2020 presidential election.

Root was the opening speaker for 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 & Louise.

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.