Trump rigged Miss Universe pageants to favor countries where he had business interests: report -- Raw Story

A new report from the New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin alleges that President Donald Trump used to regularly rig Miss Universe pageants to favor women who hailed from countries where he had business interests. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/trump-rigged-miss-universe-pageants-favor-countries-business-interests-report/

Trump in Moscow: what happened at Miss Universe in 2013 | US news | The Guardian

The pageant and the president’s attempts to get close to Putin have become a focus of the investigation into Trump’s links to Russian interference in the US election....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013

Trump's Pants on Fire about his early-morning tweet on Alicia Machado

...In the second debate on Oct. 9, Cooper cited the tweet in a question about whether Trump has the right temperament to be president.

"In the days after the first debate, you sent out a series of tweets from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m., including one that told people to check out a sex tape," Cooper said. "Is that the discipline of a good president?" 

Trump responded, "No, it wasn’t saying, ‘check out a sex tape.’ It was just ‘take a look at the person she built up to be this wonderful girl scout, who was no girl scout.’ "

Maybe that’s what Trump wanted people to read into it. But he did, in fact, direct his followers to check out a sex tape....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/09/donald-trump/trump-early-morning-sex-tape-tweet/

Trump’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

Last Monday, Trump was riding high. National polls showed him in a virtual tie — or even leading — Hillary Clinton. State polls were trending in his direction, showing leads in crucial states like Florida, Ohio and Nevada. It had been seemingly days since Trump created a major controversy.

Had his new staff gotten Trump on track? Nate Silver, the influential election prognosticator, gave Trump about a 50 percent chance of winning the White House. There was palpable sense of joy among Trump supporters: Hey, we might actually do this! And a palpable sense of dread among Trump opponents: Hey, they might actually do this!

What followed was one of the worst weeks in political history....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-bad-week-22102782a06b#.cm22d4vci

Trump’s bad week is a ‘nightmare’ for the GOP - The Washington Post

Republican leaders and strategists are unnerved by Donald Trump’s erratic attacks on a Latina beauty queen and other outbursts this week, increasingly fearful that the GOP nominee is damaging his White House hopes and doing lasting harm to the party in the campaign’s final stretch.

Party officials said they are newly embarrassed by Trump’s impulsive behavior and exasperated by his inability to concentrate on his change message and frame the race as a referendum on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to interviews with more than two dozen of them.

Senate and House candidates are ducking questions about Trump and distancing themselves, while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has refused to talk about him. And few elected leaders are counseling him.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-bad-week-is-a-nightmare-for-the-gop/2016/09/30/e9290ad8-8727-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html#comments

Clinton mocks Trump with 3am tweets on national service scholarships

In response to Donald Trump’s predawn Twitter rant against a Venezuelan American pageant queen, Hillary Clinton’s campaign mocked the Republican presidential nominee with a 3am tweetstorm of her own....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/01/hillary-clinton-twitter-national-service-scholarships-trump?cmp=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

Trump starts his day with some slut-shaming

On both Wednesday and Thursday, the Trump campaign distributed talking points to surrogates directing them to speak negatively about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who Hillary Clinton brought up during Monday night’s debate as an example of how Trump has treated women poorly. Friday morning, Trump took matters into his own hands.

In a string of tweets published between 5:15 and 5:30 a.m. ET, Trump smeared Machado as “disgusting,” and encouraged people who think otherwise to “check out sex tape.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-slut-shames-alicia-machado-212431ae93fc#.neprag90e

Trump’s bad week is a ‘nightmare’ for the GOP - The Washington Post

Republican leaders and strategists are unnerved by Donald Trump’s erratic attacks on a Latina beauty queen and other outbursts this week, increasingly fearful that the GOP nominee is damaging his White House hopes and doing lasting harm to the party in the campaign’s final stretch.

Party officials said they are newly embarrassed by Trump’s impulsive behavior and exasperated by his inability to concentrate on his change message and frame the race as a referendum on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to interviews with more than two dozen of them. Senate and House candidates are ducking questions about Trump and distancing themselves, while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has refused to talk about him. And few elected leaders are counseling him....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-bad-week-is-a-nightmare-for-the-gop/2016/09/30/e9290ad8-8727-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html

The Daily Show - Donald Trump Doubles Down on Fat-Shaming Miss Universe

Donald Trump remains defiant after Hillary Clinton calls him out for referring to former Miss Universe Alicia Machado as "Miss Piggy."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I1v7aXYitI