As the week-long story of Alicia Machado was winding down, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump threw more fuel on the fire with an early morning tweet storm Friday.
Trump called Machado “disgusting” and encouraged voters to “check out [her] sex tape and past.”
Machado, the former Miss Universe who claimed Trump called her “Miss Piggy” when she gained 60 pounds during her reign, became an official campaign surrogate for Hillary Clinton this week after Clinton mentioned the name-calling allegations in the first debate.
At 5:14 a.m., Trump tweeted:
Wow, Crooked Hillary was duped and used by my worst Miss U. Hillary floated her as an “angel” without checking her past, which is terrible!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016
Followed at 5:19 am by:
Using Alicia M in the debate as a paragon of virtue just shows that Crooked Hillary suffers from BAD JUDGEMENT! Hillary was set up by a con.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016
Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016
Machado was filmed on a reality TV show having sex with one of her co-stars under the sheets while engaged to former Major League Baseball player Bobby Abreu.