Remember Paul Le Page, governor of Maine? He made national news in the last year or so for a bunch of terrible reasons. He claimed that the drug problem in his state was exclusively the result of out-of-state people of color coming into Maine to deal drugs. Then when people were like, dude I know Donald Trump is running for President, but that's a little racist, he decided to double down saying that he's been collecting mugshots of every drug dealer arrested in the state and that 90 percent of them are black or hispanic. And then after that, LePage had the balls to not just get pissed when a democratic colleague deigned to suggest that maybe the Governor was racist. No, he said he wanted to shoot that colleague between the eyes.

So we're dealing with a real statesman here. And the newest controversy involving LePage has to do with the fact that his state is in the midst of a budget crisis and he was going to take a vacation.

When that news came out, LePage denied it and said it was "fake news" despite the fact that it was members of his own party who confirmed the trip to the press. Also damning for LePage was the fact that Maine's Senate Republican office provided the press with a recording of a voicemail where LePage says he was going out of town for 10 days. But as crazy as that is and it's bonkers, the true crazy came in LePage's response to the story where he claimed he purposefully makes up fake news stories to mislead the press.

Gov. Paul LePage lashed out at the media for reporting he planned to leave the state during a budget impasse, and he suggested he sometimes concocts stories to mislead reporters. The Republican governor also characterized the state media as “vile,” ″inaccurate” and “useless.” “I just love to sit in my office and make up ways so they’ll write these stupid stories because they are just so stupid, it’s awful,” he told WGAN-AM on Thursday.

So right as he and his office were calling the media's reports fake news, he admitted that he likes to make up fake news to fool the media. Another way to say this is, "Paul LePage likes lying to the press and by proxy his constituents because it amuses him." And the saddest part is despite all of these terrible things, not only is he not near the most embarrassing politician working today.

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