September 30, 2016 | No Comments
Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado hit back at Donald Trump’s vicious Twitter tirade from the early morning hours of Friday, calling his attacks “slander and lies.”
Machado posted on Instagram a response in Spanish, where she said Trump was generating insults and “reviving defamations and false accusations about my life.”
Trump wrote on Twitter Friday morning that Hillary Clinton was “duped and used” by “disgusting” Machado, whom he has bashed for gaining weight after winning the beauty pageant in 1996, urging his followers to “check out [her] sex tape and past.”
Machado wrote on Friday that Trump and his campaign’s attacks on her were part of an effort “to intimidate me, humiliate me, and destabilize me.”
“This, of course, is not the first time I have faced a situation like this. Through their campaign of hate, the Republican candidate tries to discredit and demoralize a woman, which is definitely one of his most terrifying features. With this, he is seeking to distract attention from his real problems and of his real incapacity to even pretend to be the leader of this great country,” Machado wrote.
Clinton brought up Trump’s prior public shaming of Machado as “Miss Piggy” during the debate on Monday, and has since rolled out video interviews with Machado, who has endorsed Clinton.
Machado said on Instagram that when she was a young woman, Trump “humiliated me, insulted me, disrespected me publicly, as he usually did privately in the cruelest form,” and that it became clear to her he repeated such actions with women over the decades.
“I will keep standing, sharing my story, and my absolute support of Mrs. Clinton on behalf of all women, my sisters, aunts, grandmothers, cousins, friends and the female community. To all my Latinas and to everyone, I want to thank you for all the support, the love, the respect, to my career and to me personally as a human and to my family. I became a citizen of this great country because my daughter was born here and because I want to exercise all my rights, including voting,” Machado wrote.