Tweeting in Spanish following the debate, Alicia Machado thanked Hillary for respecting women [View all]

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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 Trump’s 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, I’ve 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 she’s 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 O’Donnell. Tweeting in Spanish following the debate, Machado thanked Clinton for respecting women, adding, “I’m 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 doesn’t 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 …