Machado’s Claim That She Didn’t Have Disorders Before Pageant

Trump has also assailed a 1996 Miss Universe pageant victor for her weight gain – an incident Clinton used in this week’s debate to portray Trump as sexist.

Earlier Tuesday, Trump refused to back down from his criticism of Machado, telling “Fox and Friends” in an interview that she had “gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem”.

She said she was completely surprised on Monday when Clinton confronted Trump about his alleged degrading comments.

Reputable national polls showed Trump lost the debate by a huge margin while Trump and his surrogates clung to unscientific and thoroughly useless internet insta-polls to promote the idea that he “won” the debate.

Alicia Machado, former Miss Universe 1996, as she holds the February 2007 issue of Playboy Mexico magazine open in a double page with her picture in Mexico City.

After the debate, Machado tweeted her thanks to Clinton, writing in Spanish: “Thanks Mrs. Hillary Clinton“.

The former Miss Universe continued: “He can use whatever he wants to use”.

A new ad from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is seizing on recent comments his rival made questioning why she isn’t further ahead in the presidential race.

Machado denounced the accusations as “cheap lies” from a man intent on defaming her, posting her response in Spanish on Instagram next to a photo of herself draped in the US flag.

Injecting Clinton’s marital troubles into the 2016 campaign is Trump’s latest effort to bounce back from Monday night’s widely panned debate performance. Machado often uses the hashtag #NaziRat to describe Trump on Twitter. She says it underscores that Trump is “temperamentally unfit to be commander-in-chief”.

Johnson tells MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday that “exactly who did it” remains under investigation. And Machado took to her Facebook page to say Trump’s tweets were part of a pattern of “demoralizing women“.

Congratulations on becoming a USA citizen, Alicia. “And she was the worst we ever had, the worst, the absolute worst, she was impossible”.

Clinton’s campaign is trying to mobilize Latinos and women in November’s election and has assailed Trump for derogatory comments about women in the past. “Corruption and scandal”, Trump said Thursday.

And Trump supporter Kayleigh McEnany, a CNN political commentator, rebuked Trump Friday morning for his overnight tweeting, saying, “I don’t think Donald Trump needs to be doing that”.

Machado also reveals that while she should have earned 10 percent on all the work she did, according to her contract, like many other Trump employees, she got stiffed.

And at 8:50 a.m.: “Remember, don’t believe “sources said” by the VERY dishonest media”. She’s also become an outspoken advocate to raise awareness of eating disorders, which she herself suffered from.

The sound was not affected for the record-setting audience of 84 million people who tuned into the 90-minute exchange.