Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims – 1.6 billion members of an entire religion – from entering the U.S. She said she was “really surprised” to hear Clinton refer to her story during the debate she said she was overcome with emotion and started crying but wanted to help Clinton in the election.
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One of the users then asked journalist Barkha Dutt whether she would interview Sushmita Sen who was also a Miss Universe.
Shortly before Trump’s remarks, Clinton offered a more optimistic message to supporters in Iowa’s capital city.
“I think I speak more English than her”, Machado told the magazine.
She added that the late-night rant was “unhinged” and proved he is “temperamentally unfit” for the Oval Office, a line of attack she’s used before.
“For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o’clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!”
DONALD TRUMP: Where did you find this?
“I don’t see anything about this girl”.
Then Clinton uttered her name. The call lasted around five minutes.
After the debate, Machado tweeted her thanks to Clinton, writing in Spanish: “Thanks Mrs. Hillary Clinton”.
Clinton responded Friday with a tweet-storm of her own, accusing Trump of contempt for women and asking what kind of a man stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and conspiracy theories? She tied his broadside against Machado to his previous attacks on Rosie ODonnell and Kim Kardashian about their looks. “We have another status, to him”. Trump, though promising lower taxes and “jobs, jobs, jobs”, has intensified the dire warnings and personal attacks that have defined his outsider presidential bid. She blames Trump for years of suffering from an eating disorder. “I didn’t feel comfortable doing it, I feel like I did the right thing”.
Following the debate, the Clinton campaign tweeted a two-minute video about Machado’s experience with Trump.
He claimed Clinton sought to exploit her as a campaign cudgel against Trump, who had shamed Machado for gaining weight when he owned the pageant. Trump spent his morning defending his treatment of Machado, telling “Fox and Friends”, “That person was a Miss Universe person, and she was the worst we ever had, the worst, the absolute worst”. “He bears many grudges and harbors a deep racism, and he is convinced that there are lesser human beings than him”, Machado said. All while charges that Trump is insensitive at best and racist and sexist at worst become increasingly hard to combat in the face of compelling personal stories like Machado’s.
“Almost every single poll has us winning the debate against crooked Hillary.
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Hillary has to do what she has to do”.
