“There's the all mighty powerful ones like Mr. Khan — which is a con artist himself, and he uses the death of his son, who's an American soldier, which we respect and honor, and he uses that to go after Trump, which I found very distasteful.”

—  Paul LePage

In an interview with Boston radio host Howie Carr. http://mpbn.net/post/lepage-calls-father-slain-muslim-american-soldier-con-artist#stream/0 (August 25, 2016)

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