Donald Trump came under intense scrutiny after he disparaged former Miss Universe Alicia Machado in a series of scathing statements on Twitter, including an accusation that she had appeared in a sex tape.
Hillary Clinton, swiftly seized upon the attacks to characterize Trump as “unhinged.”
Trump called Machado “disgusting” and a “con” and raised questions about her past in a series of tweets.
Machado’s story has dominated media coverage of the election since Clinton brought her up at Monday’s debate, where she criticized Trump for denigrating comments he made in 1996 about Machado’s weight.
The fallout has threatened to undermine weeks of carefully choreographed efforts by Trump’s campaign to repair his image after several missteps this summer, most notably his feud with the family of a Muslim American soldier who died in Iraq.
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