Donald Trump Told Miss Universe Alicia Machado: Do Sit-Ups or You’re Fired

SHAME

The medically overweight nominee forced Machado to exercise in front of reporters to keep her Miss Universe job in 1997. Now he won’t let it go.

Senior Political Reporter

Published Sep. 27 2016 3:03PM EDT

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Few (if any, really) of Hillary Clinton’s celebrity surrogates are as personally acquainted with Donald Trump’s history of misogyny and denigration as former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.

On early Tuesday afternoon, she appeared on a press call hosted by Team Hillary to discuss, among other things, how Donald

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Donald Trump Told Miss Universe Alicia Machado: Do Sit-Ups or You’re Fired

The medically overweight nominee forced Machado to exercise in front of reporters to keep her Miss Universe job in 1997. Now he won’t let it go.

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