She has denounced him as a bully, humiliating her for gaining weight.<br /><br /> And, in a pre-dawn Twitter tirade on Friday, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump hit back with a vague, unsubstantiated claim about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado from Venezuela and a sex tape.<br /><br /> This is the hot topic in the US election campaign, with less than six weeks to go.<br /><br /> Trump’s attacks provided critics with new fodder to question his temperament for the White House.<br /><br /> “Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a US citizen so she could use her in the debate?” Trump said in his Twitter messages in the early hours of Friday. <br /><br /> He did not elaborate on his allegations beyond saying that the Clinton campaign was unaware of the beauty queen’s past and had been “duped” by her.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 30 septembre 2016<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who first referenced Machado in Monday’s TV debate, expressed shock at Trump’s ‘middle of the night’ Twitter onslaught.<br /><br /> “His latest Twitter meltdown is unhinged, even for him,” she told a campaign rally in Coral Springs, Florida.<br /><br /> “It proves yet again that he is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander-in-chief.”<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> Donald Trump said he has "great respect" for women. His actions and words say otherwise. https://t.co/DV0KszUZxM— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) 1 octobre 2016<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> Trump, the former owner of the Miss Universe pageants, also branded the former beauty queen ‘disgusting’.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> Trump says beauty queen Alicia Machado was 'the absolute worst' https://t.co/G7h306oUNB— TIME (@TIME) 27 septembre 2016<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> He has suggested he might attack Hillary Clinton in the next debate on the infidelities of her husband, ex-President Bill Clinton.<br /><br /> And on the campaign trail in Novi, Michigan, he was also lashing out over money.<br /><br /> “Hillary Clinton has made a living raking in donations from special interests that have raided our factories and ripped the jobs straight out of Michigan and every other state,” he told supporters. <br /><br /> “That is how she gets rich, by taking your jobs and your money away from you and away from your state.”<br /><br /> Trailing in the polls after a debate he is widely seen to have lost, Trump could see his beauty queen outburst <br />damage his already weak standing among women and Hispanics.<br />
