This Friday, a Florida aide to Donald Trump resigned her position, saying that the campaign is going in a direction that she finds disturbing.
“It is clear the campaign is now going in a direction I am no longer comfortable with and I have decided to move on,” Healy Baumgardner, a longtime GOP operative, told Bloomberg.
Baumgardner’s resignation comes in the wake of a series of unhinged late-night tweets from Trump targeting former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, whose name was introduced into the 2016 election during this Monday’s debate.
Clinton used Machado as an example of Trump’s record when it comes to his treatment of women.
“He called this woman Miss Piggy. Then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping’ because she was Latina,” Clinton said during the debate. “She has become a U.S. citizen, and you can bet she’s going to vote this November.”
Wow, Crooked Hillary was duped and used by my worst Miss U. Hillary floated her as an "angel" without checking her past, which is terrible!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016
If Trump had dropped the issue after the tweet above, the story might have faded. But continuing his late-night tweetstorm, the GOP nominee accused Machado of appearing in a “sex tape,” but according to Snopes.com, the tape is “nothing more than some grainy, night-vision footage.”
Using Alicia M in the debate as a paragon of virtue just shows that Crooked Hillary suffers from BAD JUDGEMENT! Hillary was set up by a con.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016
True to form, Trump floated a conspiracy theory about Machado’s status as a U.S. citizen.
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) September 30, 2016
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