“Jesus Christ was a Jew, and the CEO of the Christian religion,” Root said, adding that he, too, was born Jewish and was a CEO. “I’ve got Jewish blood and passion and zeal.” “I am a Jew and you can’t take away from a person being a Jew,” he said, noting that Islamist extremists and white supremacists would target him as Jewish. The lessons Root takes away from being born Jewish comport with hoary Jewish stereotypes - some flattering, others less so. Notably, several other Trump defenders are Jews turned Christian, including Trump’s lawyer, Jay Sekulow, and the right-wing activist and lawyer Larry Klayman. Root told JTA he “took Jesus Christ as a savior” about 30 years ago, but he still considers himself Jewish. (Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate who is a major funder of the RJC and Republican candidates along with Jewish causes, hired Root to write a column for the Las Vegas Review-Journal after buying the newspaper in 2015 - a move that raised eyebrows among fans of the paper’s hard news tradition.) Matt Brooks, the RJC’s executive director, confirmed that Root was involved in the group but says he has not been for more than a decade. Root, who lives in Las Vegas, says he founded the Republican Jewish Coalition chapter in Nevada. In the Fox column, the 58-year-old Root refers to his “Jewish butcher father, David Root.” He told The Jewish Telegraphic Agency that all four grandparents are Jewish and that his DNA shows him “99.5” percent European Jewish. He says he’s Jewish and has interesting ideas about Jewish identity.
Who exactly is Wayne Allyn Root and why are he and Trump so fond of each other? Here are some answers. “I happen to be Jewish by birth,” he said. Root, speaking Tuesday evening on his talk show on Newsmax, also a conservative news site, was a little more candid about where he was faith-wise. Maybe, in the sense that Saul was a Jewish kid from Tarsus - Root is an evangelical Christian, something he did not mention in his Fox column. I’m an Ivy League-educated Jewish kid from New York.” “I believe Donald Trump should be called ‘America’s first Jewish president,'” he wrote on the Fox News website. Just two weeks after Trump was elected, Root sought to reassure Jewish Americans, who had voted overwhelmingly for his rival, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, about the president-elect’s bona fides. It’s not the only Jewish thing Root has said about Trump. It makes no sense! But that’s OK, if he keeps doing what he’s doing, he’s good for….
They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. They love him like he is the second coming of God…But American Jews don’t know him or like him. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world…and the Jewish people in Israel love him…. “Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words. They love him like he is the second coming of God,” the quote said. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world … and the Jewish people in Israel love him … like he’s the King of Israel. “Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words,” Trump said before quoting something Root has said previously about the president.
WASHINGTON ( JTA) - On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump quoted a conservative talk show host named Wayne Allyn Root to defend comments he had made the day before that angered many in the Jewish community: that Jews who vote for Democrats show “a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”