The “sex tape” tweet apparently referred to footage from a Spanish reality show in 2005 in which Machado was a contestant and appeared on camera in bed with a male contestant.
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Trump, who is riding Twitter nearly to the White House, now can not stop himself, even when it is clearly in his self-interest to stop.
The Republican presidential nominee’s unusually strident series of tweets began at around 3:20 a.m. with a message about news reports that quote anonymous sources.
His latest broadside against Machado adds fuel to a burgeoning debate in America about “slut-shaming”, or putting down women over the perception of promiscuity.
He didn’t feature in any of the film’s racier scenes but was listed on the IMDB credits as playing “himself”.
She appeared nude in Mexican Playboy in 2006 and 2012.
Trump dedicated significant time this week defending his insults of Machado, and he and surrogates have attacked Machado’s character. Brandi Brandt, the woman alongside him is in prison for drug trafficking.
A former Miss Universe victor has said she will not be “bullied” or “silenced” after Donald Trump claimed she appeared in a sex tape.
Hillary Clinton said the issue is not Machado but the bias and instability Trump has shown in his comments about her.
“Using Alicia M in the debate as a paragon of virtue just shows that Crooked Hillary suffers from BAD JUDGEMENT!”
Trump also attacked the “dishonest” media in his Twitter posts on Friday, saying that any story citing unidentified sources is “just made up lies!”
Trump claimed he barely knew the Venezuelan beauty queen and tried to save her job when she gained weight soon after being crowned.
We also learned on Friday that Trump has enlisted Chris Christie to help coach him in the next presidential debate.
The Democrat was quick to seize on Trump’s overnight attacks on the former beauty queen as new evidence that he is lacks the steadiness to be president.
“There’s been a lot of talk about sex tapes today, and in a unusual turn of events, only one adult film has emerged today, and its star is Donald Trump”, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told a group of reporters stationed outside a Clinton fundraiser in Miami Beach. But because of Donald Trump’s reaction – and inability to stop talking about her accusations since the debate – they do now. Thursday through about 9 am.
Before long, campaign aides came to escort reporters and elected officials through to the waiting agents. Hillary Clinton had raised questions over the comment during the first phase of the presidential debate on Monday.
“When something gets under Donald s thin skin, he lashes out and can t let go”, Clinton went on.
Campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri said Clinton did not help Machado become a citizen.
“I mean his latest Twitter meltdown is unhinged, even for him”. Donald, she has a name. This is risky for a president.
It’s all “with the goal of intimidating me”, the former Miss Universe wrote in Spanish.
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Alongside a photo of herself draped in the American flag, she called Trump’s attacks on women one of his most frightening characteristics, and accused the GOP candidate of trying to deflect attention from his shortcomings as a leader.
