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Maine’s Racist, Trump-Humping Governor Just Gave a Press Conference Involving a Monica Lewinsky Nesting Doll

Paul LePage at a Donald Trump rally in Portland, Maine, on Aug. 4.

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Maine Gov. Paul LePage, last seen on the national stage having his racist claims about black and Latino drug dealers blown out of the water by a public-records request, just gave a press conference to address a Tuesday radio interview in which he approvingly promised that Donald Trump would “show some authoritarian power in this country” if elected. On Wednesday, LePage said that he had meant to use the word authoritative rather than authoritarian, which is a small comfort. For some reason this all took place in front of 1990s-Clinton-scandal-themed Russian nesting dolls.

Looks like Hillary, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, and Bill.

What does it all mean? I don’t know. No one knows.

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