LePage Calls Judge An Imbecile For Allowing Case Against Trump To Proceed

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Caitlin MacNeal | March 29, 2018 8:41 am

After a federal judge in Maryland cited Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s stay at President Donald Trump’s hotel in Washington, D.C. in a ruling allowing a lawsuit against the president to proceed, the Republican governor lashed out at the judge on Wednesday.

“I didn’t realize that I could buy the President so cheap, a night in his hotel and he’s in my back pocket,” LePage told Portland television station WGME. “The judge that did that is an imbecile. He’s a complete imbecile. That’s all I can tell you,” he continued. “Any district court judge, whether it’s state or federal, puts that in the paper because I stayed in the hotel is an absolute imbecile. And I hope that goes national. And I hope he hears it because he’s an absolute imbecile.”

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Maryland and Washington, D.C. have standing to sue Trump in their case arguing that he violated the Constitution’s Emoluments clause by failing to cut financial ties with his hotel in Washington, D.C.

In the ruling, the judge noted a visit to Trump’s hotel by LePage, as well as reported visits from foreign officials.

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[dameatball]

1. snowflake

[Angry Dragon]

2. EVIL heart

[Renew Deal]

3. The "worst governor in America" speaks

[maxrandb]

7. He's definitely in the running

Maybe the Elite 8 or Final Four, but when you've got

Walker -WI
Scott - FL
Rauner - IL
Bevin - KY
Snyder - MI
Abbot - TX
and Greitens - MO

You've got to work pretty fucking hard to crack the Top 10 of Piece of Shit Retrumplican Governors.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. My Governor Is On Your List

Illinois. And while he's a lying, incompetent moron, i think LaPage has him beat.

[infullview]

4. Snowflake is way to kind

he's a proctologist's dream. ME resident BTW

[DetlefK]

5. In other words: Trump is too rich to be bribed.

[Initech]

6. Paul LePage is an imbecile. He does not get to project.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. RepubliCons destroying public institutions again. LePage incapable of making legal argument on this.

[gohuskies]

10. More bs from an immoral jackass..

LePage needs to go away. What a useless Piece of garbage. Maine deserves better than him.

[malthaussen]

11. Imbecile, maybe, but an imbecile with a gavel...

... tough luck, Mr LePage.

-- Mal

[Mr. Ected]

12. The imbecile resides in the White House and hasn't divested his assets per the Constitution

Had this been Obama or Clinton, the same ruling would have been roundly applauded by the likes of LePage.

For a party that likes to wrap itself in the flag and blather about "law and order", they certainly take personal offense when those laws are applied against them.

[riversedge]

13. Just like trump, dissing on judges.