Audio: LePage denies knowing he paid up to $1,100 a night at Trump hotel

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Source: Portland Press Herald

Former Gov. Paul LePage denied knowing that he paid as much as $1,100 a night at the luxury Trump International Hotel while on business in Washington, D.C., and described as “fiction” a story in the Maine Sunday Telegram that documented at least $22,000 in Maine taxpayer-funded expenses at the Trump-owned hotel.

During an interview with WGAN radio on Monday, LePage said he didn’t know how much the hotel rooms cost, and appeared initially to blame a scheduler for the expense – although later in the interview he took responsibility.

“If we paid $1,100 for a hotel room in one night, shame on me, because I wasn’t aware of it. And shame on me, because I should have been on top of that,” he told hosts Matthew Gagnon and Ken Altshuler.

The former governor was responding to a story in this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram that documented $170,000 in out-of-state travel expenses by LePage and his staff, including $22,000 at the Trump hotel. The information was obtained through Freedom of Access Act requests for travel spending by the governor and his staff and security teams in 2017 and 2018.

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Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/18/lepage-denies-knowing-he-paid-up-to-1100-a-night-at-trump-hotel/

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Link to interview in article.

What a lying sack of shit.

[Clash City Rocker]

1. Thankfully, he's no longer relevant, and we already know he's scum

So this doesn’t matter much.

I look forward to the day when this is true about Trump.

[DoctorJoJo]

2. Had Trump Been Governor Instead, His Role Model Would Have Been POS LePage!

[mahina]

3. He's admitting to incompetence or he is a liar, or both.

Both is most likely.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. I can almost believe this.

I've gone on business trips where one person would take care of check-in, check-out, and put the bill on their corporate credit card (one of which I did not have). So, I don't know what the room cost. And, since I didn't put it on my expense report, I didn't care. I doubt it was anything approaching 1000.

So, I can sort of understand the argument.

[thesquanderer]

5. Either way, I'd say we can agree on the "shame on me" part. (n/t)

[Turbineguy]

6. As in:

".... and make sure I don't find out how much this costs!..."

[notdarkyet]

7. Wee need to make gov officials who overcharged for rooms, flights, meals pay back all

These funds. They are cheating tax payers.

[struggle4progress]

8. "We steal from the poor to give to the rich"

[Hulk]

9. He denies knowing about it, and it's just another lying sack of gop horsesh*t

No surprises here. What surprises me is that people continue to elect such scumbags to office, regardless of their lying and cheating and stealing.