Miss Piggy

Vincent J. Curtis

28 Sept 2016

Getting close to the Clintons can get you covered in political filth.  This has been noted before, and the former “Miss Universe,” Alicia Machado, who allowed herself to be used by Hillary Clinton to strike at Donald Trump, is getting covered now.

As mentioned in the extract below, Machado, shortly after winning the Miss Universe contest, allegedly drove a get-away car from an attempted murder scene, and then threatened the judge with murder when he indicted her boyfriend for the attempted murder.  This would not have become widespread knowledge but for Machado lending herself to the Clintons.

On my list of tweets is a re-tweet of a 1997 interview with Donald Trump and Alicia Machado along with a personal trainer that Trump had hired for Miss Machado to help her deal with her weight problem.  Trump was an understanding gentleman throughout, explaining to the press how both he and Machado like to eat when the pressure is on.  Machado had won the contest at a weight of 118 lb, and they discussed how Miss Machado was going to get herself down to between 125 and 130 lb.  From the context, Machado was up over 140 lb by that point.

One of the requirements of entering a beauty contest is that if you win it, you have certain responsibilities to appear.  At appearances, you have to look like the glamorous and beautiful woman who won the contest.  An event that is hiring “Miss Universe” to appear, isn’t paying for a fat facsimile of same.  They aren’t hiring a pleasant looking 140+ lb heifer; they are hiring a 120 lb beauty queen.  Machado was violating her contract, and Trump was trying to re-coup his investment in Miss Universe.  This isn’t about personal relationships, this is about a business deal heading south because of an undisclosed personal weakness in one of the partners.

Of course, there are personalities and egos involved.  Miss Machado’s ego seems to equal her personal self with the entire Latino community.  The extract below from CNN covers the facts well:

• "We cannot accept no more insults for my Latin community. No more insults for the women," she says
• "He tried to destroy my self esteem," she says

Washington (CNN)Former "Miss Universe" Alicia Machado struck back Tuesday against insults hurled at her by Donald Trump, saying that he was "aggressive" and "really rude."

Machado, who represented Venezuela in Trump's 1996 "Miss Universe" competition said that Trump called her "Miss Housekeeping" and "Miss Piggy" when she gained weight after winning the beauty pageant.

"I know what I left with him and he knows, too. And he was really aggressive. He was really rude. He was a bad person with me," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper on "AC360."

"That is the story that I need to share with my community. We cannot accept no more insults for my Latin community. No more insults for the women. I know very well Mr. Trump and I can see the same person that I met 20 years ago."

At the presidential debate on Monday, Clinton referenced Machado to make a bigger point to Trump about his public treatment of women -- which has become a key campaign issue that hits on his vulnerabilities with both Hispanics and women.

"And one of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest -- he loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them -- and he called this woman 'Miss Piggy,' then he called her 'Miss Housekeeping' because she was Latina," Clinton had said.

She continued: "Donald, she has a name. Her name is Alicia Machado. And she has become a US citizen and you can bet she is going to vote this November."

Cooper also asked Machado about reports that she was accused of driving a getaway car from a murder scene soon after the "Miss Universe" pageant.

"There are reports that Trump surrogates tonight have been referencing and been pointing to ... about an incident in 1998 in Venezuela where you were accused of driving a getaway car from a murder scene. You were never charged with this. The judge in the case also said you threatened to kill him after he indicted your boyfriend for the attempted murder. I just want to give you a chance to respond these reports," Cooper said.

Machado responded: "He can say whatever he wants to say. I don't care. You know, I have my past, of course everybody has a past. And I'm no saint girl. But that is not the point now ... (Trump) was really rude with me, he tried to destroy my self esteem. And now I'm a voice in the Latin community. I'm in a great moment in my life and I have a very clear life. And I can show my taxes."

Earlier Tuesday, Trump refused to back down from his criticism of Machado, telling "Fox and Friends" in an interview that she had "gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem."

"She was the winner and you know, she gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem. We had a real problem," Trump said. "Not only that, her attitude, and we had a real problem with her, so Hillary went back into the years and she found this girl -- this was many years ago. And found the girl and talked about her like she was Mother Theresa. And it wasn't quite that way but that's OK. Hillary has to do what she has to do."

Surprisingly, the Clinton News Network covered this story factually.  The story proves that Hillary Clinton was lying when she used this as an example of how badly Trump treats “women,” or is it “Latinos,” or whatever.  Publically, Trump said nothing bad about her at the time, 1997.  If he expressed anger with her, it was in private.  Latino or no, woman or no, Machado was letting down her side of the contract and costing Donald Trump money because of it.  Getting herself involved in an attempted murder and then threatening to kill a judge would have ruined the reputation of “Miss Universe” and cost Trump a lot more money.  No wonder he was furious with her.

Now that Miss Piggy has identified herself, and has allowed herself to be held up by the Clintons in her petty revenge against Trump, her private life, her own terrible decisions, and her raging ego are now exposed to the world.  She is getting covered in filth she would never have been exposed to but for her contact with the Clintons.

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