In the middle of the night, as you slept like a sane human, Donald Trump launched into a Twitter rant about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.
Hillary Clinton pounced on how Trump treated Machado after she won the crown during his tenure as owner of the beauty competition, bringing it up at the first presidential debate on Monday night.
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She says Trump called her “Miss Piggy” when she gained some weight and “Miss Housekeeping” as a shot against her ethnicity.
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Trump is having a hard time letting this line of attack go, which is only giving it a longer lifespan and likely continuing to hurt his chances with female voters. Polls suggests his debate performance didn’t help and he was already struggling to win their votes. So he took to his favorite outlet for his rage and frustration, Twitter, and laid into both Clinton and Machado.
Wow, Crooked Hillary was duped and used by my worst Miss U. Hillary floated her as an "angel" without checking her past, which is terrible!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016
Using Alicia M in the debate as a paragon of virtue just shows that Crooked Hillary suffers from BAD JUDGEMENT! Hillary was set up by a con.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016
Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016
Media outlets have looked into the claim of a sex tape and have come up empty.
Clinton chimed in on Twitter while watching Trump go off the rails, hitting him on his misogyny and asking, “What kind of man stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and conspiracy theories?”
What kind of man stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and conspiracy theories?
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 30, 2016
To Donald, women like Alicia are only as valuable as his personal opinion about their looks. https://t.co/OZv8yg8vjZ pic.twitter.com/PZWmPcORBR
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 30, 2016
We've heard Donald's insults for years, and his policies reflect this disregard—even contempt—for women.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 30, 2016
Machado responded on Instagram. The auto-translated version can be read below, which as you can see doesn’t get it perfect but will give you a good idea as to what she has to say on the matter. She is certainly not backing down from Trump’s attempt to humiliate and silence her.
The Republican candidate and his campaign team are again generating attacks, insults and trying to revive slanders and false accusations about my life. All this in order to intimidate, humiliate me and unbalance me again. The attacks that have emerged are slander and lies cheap generated with bad intentions, which have no foundation that have been spread by sensationalist media. This, of course, is not the first time that I face such a situation. Through their hate campaign, the Republican candidate insists discredit and demoralize a woman, which is definitely one of the most terrifying features, with this, seeking to distract attention from their real problems and its inability to pretend to be the leader of this great country. When I was a young girl, the now candidate, I was humiliated, insulted me, I disrespected publicly, as he usually did privately in the cruelest way. As this happened to me, it is clear over the years that their actions and behavior have been repeated with other women for decades. Therefore, I will keep standing, sharing my story, my absolute support Mrs. Clinton on behalf of women, my sisters, aunts, grandmothers, cousins, friends and female community. My Latin and in general, I want to thank all the support, love and respect, my career, my person as a human being and my family. I became a citizen of this great country because my daughter was born here and because I wanted to exercise my rights, including voting. I will continue standing firm in my lived experience as Miss Universe and you with me supporting me. I’ve been so pleased with many kind words, for so much love. I’m focusing on my busy career, in my work as mother and I will continue taking positive steps for the Latino community, I will continue as activist for women’s rights and respect we deserve. I appreciate all your love and all your support again, thanks. Thousands of blessings.
GC1985
*face palm* His polls numbers are now sinking again and this is what he resorts to? More histrionics? His c@mpaign manager Conway had a slip today saying he abuses women lol.
Trump really should keep it up. Women are going to send him to defeat. He hates losing to a female and that is exactly what happened in the debate. And he was up all night. Probably panicking and suffering from cold sweats since he got his ass handed to him in the debate.
GC1985
BTW, if you doubt me there have been a slew of polls from battleground states showing Hillary growing a lead on average of 6-7%. Including in ones that were close to draws. And those polls were taken prior or shortly after the Trump disaster of that debate. The full effects are yet to be felt.
GC1985
By the way, it is spelled JUDGMENT. Apparently the man can’t spell either. And he certainly doesn’t have any of his own in that drug induced twitter rant.
Howard “yeaaaaaaaaa” Dean was right on the money. The man has a coke habit. Is a drug test required to hold office? Lmao.
Brian
Trump is ahead by 5 in the latest LA Times poll.
As for this woman Alicia Machado, I think she made poor choices. She chose to be part of a sexist beauty pageant.
Gay men need to be more critical of women who make poor choices. They’re not all innocent victims.
GC1985
@Brian: LA Times is not valid (for reasons I went over many times) and has a 5% margin of error. He is way behind by 5-6% in other polls. Hillary is ahead 5-6% in other polls.
Oh and Trump has collapsed in many state polls, like in Nevada and Michigan.
Stupid Brian. still being a misogynist? You are a stupid man and everything you do is a result of poor life choices.
GC1985
The LA Times poll is done of older demographics and over samples republicans. It suffers from being a daily tracking poll and has a very high margin of error of nearly 5%. In other words, it is as bad as Rasmussen reports.
GC1985
Fox News poll (which is biased towards Republicans by several percent), now has Hillary ahead by 5%. Check mate.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
“Trump obsessively bullies Rosie O’Donnell”
Oh for fuck sake.
I hate that this dishonest bitch is our only chance to prevent much, much worse. What a world. Fuck.
Jack Meoff
I find it laughable that Trump has so much to say about fat and unattractive women all the time considering he is one of the least attractive public figures in the world. The man has a pug face and is overweight with a couch potato body and the most ridiculous comb over on the face of the planet yet he still reserves the right to insult woman on their looks. Does the man not own a mirror! Does the man not have an honest stylist who will tell him how ridiculous he looks. I don’t know how any of his wives could bare to get into bed with him it must have been just awful. What some women will do for money.
GC1985
Does Trump have access to even a super cuts? Supposedly he has money… no doubt supercuts would do a better job with that hair.
It looks like that rare South American sloth they found.
GC1985
I can’t find my Prozac anywhere. It’s been daaaaaaaaaayyyyyyys!