Presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) defended Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) during an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday morning, after LePage came under fire last week for racially charged remarks about heroin dealers impregnating “white women” in his state.
“I heard Paul’s remarks and frankly, he’s apologized for them,” Christie said during an interview taped Saturday in South Carolina.
LePage was one of the first public officials to endorse Christie’s presidential run. LePage later admitted he didn’t know the race of the drug dealers (“D-Money, Smoothie” and “Shifty”) he was referring to and said the media had made his comments “racist.”
“He’s a good man and he’s apologized,” Christie continued. “Everyone of us — me and everybody else who’s in public life — says things at times they wish they could take back.”
Christie said “we all know” that LePage is “an outspoken guy.”
“It doesn’t change a bit for me, my affection for him, my respect for him as a leader and as a person,” he said.
Watch the clip, from MSNBC, below:
These two peas make for one hell of an overstuffed pod.
Christie reads old headlines - and immediately complies -
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That’s true of all of us – but Le Page is pretty much the equivalent of Donald Trump in this department … has no filter, none whatsoever and states some of the most insanely, batshitty and lying racist garbage anyone has ever heard, not to mention how highly he thinks of the poor and working class. He makes these remarks pretty much weekly – so, no, he’s not at all like the rest of us who say something we regret every once in a blue moon. For Le Page, the moon is always blue. So, if you want to lump yourself in with his class, you go right ahead, Guv.
LePage is a disaster and a moron who should be kicked out of office…but he’s a Republican so no Republican in national politics would dare say anything bad about him.
Apparently the people of Maine loved him so much they re-elected him, despite all his shenanigans. They share an equal part of the blame for this debacle.