Alicia Machado and Hillary Clinton Fire Back at Donald Trump

“The Republican candidate and his campaign team are again generating attacks, insults, and trying to revive defamations and false accusations about my life. All of this is done with the goal of intimidating me, humiliating me, and unbalancing me one more time. The attacks that have emerged are slander and cheap lies, generated with negative intentions, that have no basis and have been spread through sensationalist media. This, of course, is not the first time that I have faced a situation like this. Throughout his campaign of hate, the Republican candidate insists on discrediting and demoralizing a woman, one of his most defining and terrifying characteristics. With this, he seeks to distract attention from his real problems and his inability to pretend to be the leader of this great nation. When I was a young girl, the now-candidate humiliated me, insulted me, and publicly disrespected me as he has done usually privately in the most cruel form. As this was happening to me, it has become clear over the years that his actions and conduct have been repeated with other women over decades,” Machado continued. “Therefore I will continue to stand, sharing my story, with absolute support for Mrs. Clinton in the name of women, of my sisters, aunts, grandmothers, cousins, friends and the female community.”