“I think people here are good people. I think they have the right intention, but they are a little bit confused.”
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Her goal, she added, was to get at least 1,000 hugs that day.
"We're just here to spread love. I don't think there's enough of that here," she said.
“Yawn.”
Machado, a former Miss Venezuela who has come out in support of Hillary Clinton, was filmed hooking up with another contestant on a Big Brother-esque reality show in 2005. She has also modeled for Playboy.
That seems to be what Trump is referring to in his tweet.
Trump supporter Jonathan sells Trump merchandise outside his rally in Novi, Michigan.
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Donald Trump made an appearance in an explicit 2000 Playboy video.
Trump's role in the porn is relatively benign and centers around him breaking a bottle of champagne on a Playboy-branded limo while several of the playmates are visiting New York City. BuzzFeed News obtained the footage from the online-only Buffalo, New York–based adult video store Cinema Cornucopia.
Other scenes from the film feature fully nude women posing in sexual positions, dancing naked, touching themselves while naked, touching each other sensually, rubbing honey on themselves, taking a bath, and dressing in costumes.
The VHS cover of the video reads: "From luxuriating in a warm, soapy tub, to reveling at an exclusive night club, Carol and Darlene bare their sex appeal and lead you on a sensual journey of discovery."
On a bus tour hunt for the 2000 Playmate of the Year around the country, the Playmates travel to different cities including New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, Nashville, and San Diego. Trump welcomes the Playmates in New York and pops a bottle of champagne to kick off the New York stop. Trump then pours it over the Playboy bunny logo.
“Beauty is beauty, and let’s see what happens with New York," Trump says.
Trump on Friday attacked former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who has spoken out about how Trump treated her in the late 1990s, for her "sex tape" — a grainy night-vision video of her having sex while appearing on a reality show. False rumors spread on right-wing websites earlier this week that Machado appeared in a number of online porn videos. The videos under her name on porn sites around the web don't feature the former beauty queen.
Here's video of Trump's appearance:
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This spring, Donald Trump attacked Gonzalo Curiel, the Mexican-American federal judge overseeing the Trump University lawsuit — and kept attacking.
This summer, Trump attacked the Khans, the gold star parents who lost a son in Iraq and slammed Trump during the Democratic convention — and kept attacking.
And now this fall, Trump can't seem to stop talking about Alicia Machado, the Venezuelan 1996 Miss Universe, catapulted to national prominence after Hillary Clinton mentioned during the debate that Machado was shamed by Donald Trump for gaining weight — and the latest in a string of non-politicians whose interactions with Trump have either damaged his candidacy, or become massive distractions.
The latest scattershot Trump salvo came before dawn, when he alleged that Machado had a sex tape.
Clinton responded on Twitter, calling Trump's early morning attacks "unhinged."
"What kind of man stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and conspiracy theories?" her account tweeted.
On Instagram, Machado wrote that it was "not the first time the candidate insists on discrediting someone or insists on demoralizing women, minorities, and people of certain religions through his hateful campaign." She called his attacks slander and false accusations meant to humiliate and intimidate her.
In the days since the debate, Machado has made herself a fixture in the media and been a popular search term on Google, skyrocketing past even Kim Kardashian.
The Trump campaign and its surrogates have responded by questioning Machado's past, including allegations that she was a getaway driver when her then-boyfriend shot a man, and that she had threatened the judge on the case, though she was not charged in either circumstance. (In response, Machado told Anderson Cooper on CNN that she was "not a saint girl.")
The Clinton campaign became aware of Machado after an Inside Edition interview in May, in which she said Trump called her "Miss Piggy." She spoke of how he embarrassed her by taking her to a gym to workout in front of cameras and reporters and called her "an eating machine." Machado said she was becoming a citizen before the election to vote against Trump.
At the time, Clinton's Twitter account shared the video of the segment along with a message: "Congratulations on becoming a U.S. citizen, Alicia. Enjoy casting that vote." Machado responded by asking Clinton to stay "with us, with Latina mothers."
Soon Machado was connected with the Florida team, and knocked on doors to register voters for the campaign in the state in August, according to a campaign aide.
But how did a Florida surrogate, who also did events in Virginia, come to be mentioned a month later at the first presidential debate, a seemingly planned moment with maximum political potency with women, immigrants, and Latinos?
A campaign source said there was interest in using Machado's unique circumstances more as the race rolled on and the Latino team elevated her story for use in the debate during preparations.
"Why pick on Machado? He got kicked around in the debate but it was this thing about this woman," the campaign source said. "I'm starting to think there's a part of him that is really bothered by women, he wants to control them and when he can't he flips out."
Leon Krauze, a Los Angeles-based Univision anchor for the national network, said he believes the legacy of the Machado incident will be that it hurt Trump more with women, than with Latinos.
"I get what Clinton was trying to do, Alicia Machado is like a beautifully crafted stone, you get the female vote, Hispanics and immigrants with one single case," he said. "But from what we’ve been hearing on our end, the misogyny aspect of it resonates most, rather than the Latino aspect. There may be an impact with Latinos, but the main damage is with women.
Ana Navarro, a CNN commentator and Republican strategist who has remained staunchly anti-Trump, agreed. She said Trump can not restrain himself from charging wildly when he feels attacked even if it's an "idiotic thing to do."
"It is not helpful to see him and his surrogates trash Alicia. Hell knows no fury like a Latina who's been called fat," Navarro said.
Navarro, like Clinton spokesperson Jennifer Palmieri speaking to reporters Friday, noted that Trump similarly attacked another woman, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly after a primary debate.
"His insults against Alicia are fat-shaming, bullying, and speak to a total lack of chivalry," Navarro said. "I think a lot of us are shocked that a powerful man can be so vile and petty toward a woman. It's kind of gross, really."
Clinton spoke with Machado during her drive to the airport Friday, thanking her for her "courage" as the issue has been unpleasantly elevated into a war of words with Trump, said Clinton spokesperson Nick Merrill.
Segueing to the day's events after eight tweets about Machado and Trump's comments about women, Clinton's Twitter account said "While Donald continues day 5 of his Machado meltdown, we'll be in Florida talking about national service."
But you got the sense the campaign was overjoyed, that thanks to Trump, Machado was still in the news.
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Alabama's Supreme Court unanimously upheld the state's death penalty sentencing scheme on Friday, nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a similar system in Florida.
In January, the high court ruled in Hurst v. Florida that the state's sentencing law was unconstitutional because it relied on “a judge’s factfinding” and not “a jury’s verdict” to sentence a person to death.
On Friday, the eight sitting judges of the Alabama Supreme Court said its law was sufficiently different that it remains constitutional.
"[B]ecause in Alabama a jury, not the judge, determines by a unanimous verdict the critical finding that an aggravating circumstance exists beyond a reasonable doubt to make a defendant death-eligible, Alabama's capital-sentencing scheme does not violate the Sixth Amendment," Justice Lyn Stuart wrote for the court wrote.
"Moreover, Hurst does not address the process of weighing the aggravating and mitigating circumstances or suggest that the jury must conduct the weighing process to satisfy the Sixth Amendment."
Six of the remaining seven justices on the court (Chief Justice Roy Moore has been suspended from office) joined Stuart's ruling. The final justice, Justice Glenn Murdock, agreed with the result of the case — affirming Bohannon's death sentence — but did not join in Stuart's opinion.
Last month, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that its death penalty law was unconstitutional, citing Hurst.
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The Republican nominee for president called the former Miss Universe Alicia Machado “disgusting” and asked the public to check out her “sex tape.”
The story says Machado modeled nude for Playboy and "is in a sextape."
"A sex-tape of Machado and a co-star on the Venezuelan reality show La Granja was released in 2005," the story said.
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Guests at several of Republican nominee Donald Trump's hotels woke up to a complimentary copy of USA Today's blistering editorial that concluded Trump was unfit to be president.
The newspaper's editorial board weighed in on the presidential race for the first time in its history — declaring Trump "unfit for the presidency" by "unanimous consensus."
Representatives for four Trump-branded hotels — Trump International Hotel & Tower in New York, Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago, Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, and Trump Doral in Miami — told BuzzFeed News that guests are provided a complimentary copy of the paper. The front page of Friday's edition featured a tease of the editorial, with the headline, "TRUMP UNFIT FOR THE PRESIDENCY."
At two properties, Trump Waikiki in Hawaii and Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, the newspaper is sold at the property in the hotel shop. A representative for Trump SoHo said they offered a copy for a fee.
In Canada, guests at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Toronto can get a complimentary copy.
In response to the editorial, Trump tweeted Friday morning: "The people are really smart in cancelling subscriptions to the Dallas & Arizona papers & now USA Today will lose readers! The people get it!"
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During his brutal public feud with Rosie O'Donnell in the mid-2000s, Donald Trump said it was "so natural" to refer to O'Donnell as "he."
Trump was speaking at a Learning Annex event in Toronto in early 2007 when he made the comments.
Listing off people O'Donnell had publicly attacked, Trump said, "Then he attacked Kelly Ripa. And he attacked, she attacked — I guess I could say 'he.' It's so natural. No, it's so natural."
In the same speech, Trump also said it was "politically correct bullshit" that people would not call O'Donnell fat.
"This slob, now I'm not allowed to use the word fat," Trump said. "They say, 'he used the fat word.' I know much worse words. It's funny, I called her a degenerate, I called her the worst things, nobody cared."
He added later, "So I hit her hard, right between those ugly ffff– eyes," he added. "But I go on the Today Show and Meredith Vieira, 'Donald is true?' – this is like two weeks ago I was supposed to talking about The Apprentice. She said, 'is it true that you called Rosie crude.' I said, 'no, I called her a degenerate. I didn't call her crude, it's not strong enough.' She goes, 'but did you call her fat?' I said, 'let me ask you a question Meredith. Is she fat?' 'I'd rather not comment.' Can you believe this bullshit. This is politically correct bullshit, OK? So I had fun."
Trump also made fun of O'Donnell's children for telling her that he had called her the "F" word.
"'But, he called me the 'F' word.' Do you believe this, this is what she comments," stated Trump. "She said her children came up to her, 'mommy, mommy' and you know her wife is a very beautiful women. I go, 'mommy, mommy he called you the 'F' word.' Now, I know two 'F' words and one is worse than the word 'fat.' Now, I would never call her fat."
In a partial clip of the same speech uncovered earlier in the year by BuzzFeed News, Trump also savagely mocked O'Donnell's depression, boasting how he used O'Donnell's mental illness to end his feud with her.
"I said, ‘I think I can cure here depression,’ — most of you heard this. ‘If she stopped looking in the mirror, I think she’d stop being so depressed,'" Trump said.
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Newt Gingrich on Thursday called Hillary Clinton's attack on Donald Trump for mocking former Miss Universe Alicia Machado’s weight "as false as Benghazi" and "the new Benghazi lie."
In an interview on Sean Hannity's radio show on Thursday, the former house speaker and current Trump adviser said, "I think as fascinating to look at how the elite media bought — this is the new Benghazi lie — what Hillary tried to set up, and what they spend apparently months preparing was an ambush that was as false as Benghazi. It was as false as her claim she was under fire in Bosnia. It was as false as the lies she told about her emails."
"The elite media, which is Clinton, they totally identify with her, they took it hook, line, and sinker," Gingrich continued. "For three or four days they have run with it, and now, as happened in Ferguson, as happened in Benghazi, as happened in Bosnia, it's all starting to fall apart because it's based on a series of falsehoods."
Gingrich said Trump's 1997 comments about Machado, in which Trump said she was an "eating machine," "plumply," and she "ate a lot of everything," were Trump trying to make Miss Universe work as a business and him "actually being very positive."
At the close of the first presidential debate on Monday, Clinton went after Trump for repeatedly mocking Machado gaining weight after she won Miss Universe in 1996.
“He called this woman ‘Miss Piggy.’ Then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping,’ because she was Latina,” Clinton said on Monday.
Trump fired back strongly on Friday morning. In a series of tweets he called Machado "disgusting" and said people should look at her questionable past and "sex tape."
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The presidential candidate said that Hillary was "duped" by the "worst Miss U," while calling the beauty queen's credibility into question because of incidents recently uncovered from her past.
In 2005, Machado was on a Big Brother-type Spanish reality show called La Granja or The Farm. While on the show, she engaged in a sexual relationship with one of her co-stars that was caught on the show's cameras and later aired on television, according to a story published in The Sun.
Machado was engaged to baseball player Bobby Abreu, who called off the engagement following the incident.
Machado has said that she's been mistreated and insulted by Trump ever since she won the Miss Universe title in 1996. Following Monday's debate, Trump went on Fox and Friends to say that Machado's weight gain while Miss Universe was a "real problem."
Clinton used Machado during the debate as an example of how Trump has treated women. Saying that Trump called Machado "Miss Piggy" when she gained some weight.
“One of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest,” Clinton said Monday. “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.
“Donald, she has a name,” Clinton continued. “Her name is Alicia Machado, and she has become a US citizen.
LINK: Former Miss Universe Trump Called Fat: “I Know What He’s Capable Of”
LINK: Trump Said Miss Universe Winner’s Weight Gain Was A “Real Problem”
