Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who has often found himself under fire for his own controversial statements, Thursday had some advice for outspoken GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's refusal to answer if he'd accept the election results if he loses: "Get over yourself."
"That's an absolute stupid move, period," LePage told WGAN-AM in an interview on Thursday. "Take your licks, and let's move on."
However, he said he does believe that the American media has "given Hillary Clinton a free pass."
"The stuff that's coming out of WikiLeaks, the mention it once and they move on, it's not fair to the American people," the Republican governor, who has described himself as "Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular," told the talk show.
"I think that the Hillary Clinton campaign is a criminal enterprise, and she's getting away with it," LePage continued. "She's buying the country."
The media also mistreated Arizona Sen. John McCain when he was the Republican nominee against then-Sen. Barack Obama, said LePage.
"They loved him during the primaries, but then when he was elected they turned the howitzers on him," the governor said.
LePage said the current election reminds him of the election of 1826, when "Andrew Jackson clearly won the election, but the elitists changed the results."
The governor backs Trump's campaign, but found himself in some trouble on Oct. 11, when he said the United States needed the New Yorker in the White House to show "authoritarian power."
The next day, he admitted he misspoke, and that he'd actually meant to say authoritative, and that he was attempting to compare Trump to the old TV ads for brokerage firm E.F. Hutton and its tagline "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen."
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