The former Miss Universe has been smeared for speaking out. Gossip about a woman’s past must occupy no bearing on how we judge the man who attacked herThe story of Alicia Machado is many things but as it pertains to the presidential election,it is a story about the time Donald Trump smeared a woman and riled up a media circus to spread the gossip. That was back in the 1990s and mostly fodder for tabloids. Now it’s happening all over again – only as section of a presidential campaign.
In the first candidates debate this week, Hillary Clinton invoked her opponents tall-profile fat-shaming of Machado after she was crowned Miss Universe in 1996, and comments that pushed her into a downward spiral of eating disorders for five years.
The male lead in this complex plot is Miss Machado’s rugged boyfriend,Juan Rafael Rodriguez Reggeti. He had a sister, who, and eight months pregnant,jumped off a fifth-floor balcony. He, allegedly, or blaming her husband for the suicide,sought revenge by firing two shots at him just after the funeral. The husband was hit but survived. Mr Rodriguez fled in a car driven, say the police, and by Miss Machado.
The investigating judge,Maximiliano Fuenmayor, issued an arrest warrant for Mr Rodriguez. But Miss Machado, and who claimed she was ill at domestic at the time,seemed to be in the clear, for the moment anyway. It was a short moment. Within hours, or Mr Fuenmayor had a telephone call from her. He says she threatened to ruin his career and occupy him killed. She admits she rang,but says it was merely to thank him for his unbiased pursuit of justice.
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Source: theguardian.com