On Tuesday night, as Ron Paul celebrated his second-place finish in New Hampshire, he was joined by what appeared to be a giant, standing behind him during this speech. Turns out, the guy isn’t really all that tall — only six-foot-five:

For some reason you looked more gigantic in those photos. Were you standing next to a midget?
That guy was pretty short who was standing in front of me. He’s not a midget, but he’s pretty short. That’s why this whole thing is very funny to me. I was going to make up some crazy story that I was found in an orphanage and all that, I’m nine feet tall, but no. I’m just six-foot-five, the guy in front of me was short, and it just happened to be.

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