Looks like the Donald Trump-Alicia Machado saga is going to get dragged for some time now. It seems like neither is willing to give up on each other. The whole Alicia controversy has garnered support for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, but Trump has since been struggling to break free.
Trump did try to dismiss all the allegations and made a statement a day after the debate. Trump said Machado had “gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.” Trump also said that he was the one who spared Machado when others wanted to fire her as Miss Universe. “I saved her job because they wanted to fire her for putting on so much weight,” Trump told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly in a pre-taped interview broadcast Wednesday evening. “And it is a beauty contest. You know, I mean, say what you want, Bill, I mean, they know what they're getting into. It’s a beauty contest.”
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A former House speaker and top Trump surrogate Gingrich said from the room of Republicans eliciting laughter, “You’re not supposed to gain 60 pounds during the year that you’re Miss Universe.” The war continued when Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri tweeted in response to Gingrich’s comment. “I am sorry, I can't get past this. Newt Gingrich is criticizing someone for their weight.”
You would think the attack would stop there, but Trump’s former campaign manager Lewandowski launched a new attack during the breakfast hour on Thursday. “The Clinton campaign took a person and brought her into a debate who has been part of a murder,” he said on CNN. “We know that. True.”
Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado was accused of being involved in an attempted murder in 1997 for allegedly driving the getaway car after her boyfriend wounded his brother-in-law in a shooting. However, later charges against her were dropped over lack of evidence.
The battle just got real and dirty as hell..!! Alicia Machado’s topic started from the time when the beauty queen applied for US citizenship to vote against Tump. Since then the case has dragged itself to the political level. We leave the rest for you to decide.
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