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1997 Video: Trump was not Unkind to Alicia Machado

<p>Hillary Clinton knew just what to say during the Sep&period; 26th debate to provoke a response from Donald Trump&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As we know&comma; the Democratic nominee will say just about anything to paint a bad picture of her rival&comma; and as Trump pointed out during the debate&comma; she has spent &ldquo&semi;hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads&rdquo&semi; against him&comma; &ldquo&semi;many of which are untrue&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hillary Clinton brought up Trump&rsquo&semi;s &ldquo&semi;love&rdquo&semi; of beauty pageants during the recent debate&comma; rattling the GOP candidate on a topic not even relevant to his presidency&period;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;He loves beauty contests&comma; supporting them and hanging around them&comma;&rdquo&semi; she said&period; Clinton then&nbsp&semi;slammed Trump for calling former Miss Universe Alicia Machado &ldquo&semi;Miss Piggy&rdquo&semi; and &ldquo&semi;Miss Housekeeping&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Machado is Hispanic&comma; and the media couldn&rsquo&semi;t resist lumping this accusation into Trump&rsquo&semi;s earlier statements about Latinos&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The video linked below shows Trump interacting with reporters and Alicia at a gym in 1997&period; As you will see&comma; Trump was not unkind to the model&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><center><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;2CjslIatnIE" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchingbagpost&period;com&sol;images&sol;trump&lowbar;machado&lowbar;56yet&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"450" border&equals;"0&comma;" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;center><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When questioned about Alicia&rsquo&semi;s weight gain &lpar;12 pounds&rpar;&comma; Trump said that he visits the gym &ldquo&semi;as little as possible&period;&rdquo&semi; He noted that models are under &ldquo&semi;tremendous pressure&rdquo&semi; to remain thin and that it is not uncommon to gain weight while under pressure&period;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;Alicia is like me&comma; and like a lot of other people&period; I love to eat&semi; we all love to eat&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When asked what advice he would give to Alicia&comma; Trump replied&comma; &ldquo&semi;I don&rsquo&semi;t think Alicia needs much advice&period; Before I owned the Miss Universe contest&comma; I went to the Miss Universe contest&hellip&semi; I felt that Alicia was one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen&period; It was incredible&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Alicia seemed charmed by Donald Trump&comma; even offering to workout with him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump stated that Alicia was beautiful when she won and &ldquo&semi;she&rsquo&semi;s totally beautiful now&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;Trump denies calling Alicia the insulting nicknames Hillary threw at him during the debate&comma; and&nbsp&semi;encourages his supporters not to believe everything the media says&period; He posted the following message to Twitter on September 20th&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Anytime you see a story about me or my campaign saying &ldquo&semi;sources said&comma;&rdquo&semi; DO NOT believe it&period; There are no sources&comma; they are just made up lies&excl;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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