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from Daily Beast:
Latina Miss Universe, Insulted by Trump, Thanks Hillary for Debate Shout-Out
In the final moments of the first presidential debate Monday night, Hillary Clinton brought up Alicia Machado, a former winner of Trumps Miss Universe pageant, who told Inside Edition this year that Donald Trump referred to her as Miss Housekeeping and Miss Piggy after she gained weight following her victory in 1996. After that episode, I was sick, anorexia and bulimia for five years, Machado said of the ridicule from Trump. Over the past 20 years, Ive gone to a lot of psychologists to combat this.
Jesse Lehrich ?@JesseLehrich 49m49 minutes ago
@nytimes: Shamed and Angry: The Beauty Contestant Donald Trump Mocked for Her Weight
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/us/politics/alicia-machado-donald-trump.html?_r=0
As Clinton mentioned during the debate, Machado became a U.S. citizen this year and you can bet shes going to vote this November. In response, Trump repeated the question, Where did you find this? and went on to defend the derogatory comments he has made in the past about comedian Rosie ODonnell. Tweeting in Spanish following the debate, Machado thanked Clinton for respecting women, adding, Im with you!
Alicia Machado @machadooficial
Gracias señora @HillaryClinton su respeto a las mujeres y nuestras diferencias la hacen grande! Estoy con usted!
The Clinton campaign was armed with a new video featuring Machado that went up on Twitter shortly after the debate ended. In the piece, Machado tells her story about the insults hurled at her by Trump. This is a man who doesnt realize the damage he causes, she says. He bears many grudges and harbors a deep racism, and he is convinced there are lesser human beings than him.
read: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/09/26/miss-universe-alicia-machado-insulted-by-trump-thanks-hillary-for-debate-shout-out.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
watch:
Jesse Lehrich ?@JesseLehrich 1h1 hour ago
Trump responds to claims that he fat-shamed a Miss Universe winner by fat-shaming her again
http://www.vox.com/identities/2016/9/27/13070924/trump-debate-alicia-machado-miss-universe-miss-piggy-fat-shaming
Motley13
(3,867 posts)The maggot is a lecherous orange anus.
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)But Trump couldnt help himself. Much like when he kept attacking the family of a fallen Muslim-American soldier who criticized him at the Democratic National Convention, Trump couldnt help trying to reassert his dominance after being publicly called out for saying something shameful. And he just didnt seem to understand how cruel and offensive his comments would sound to most people.
It's all about smoothing over his vile comments and convincing people he wasn't wrong, in other words, he was perfectly justified in his behavior. Just as he did in the debate last night saying that Rosie "deserved it." That was supposed to make it ok. He never has a thought about his personality.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)we, as a society, had rallied around her back then to challenge the idea that a woman is beautiful only if she is thin. Alicia Machado is and has always been a beautiful woman. Nothing -- not even time -- will change that.