Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton attempted to savage Donald Trump in Monday’s presidential debate by bringing up his comments about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado’s weight.

In reality, Trump saved Machado’s title and helped her lose the extra pounds, as well.

According to a report form CNN dating back to 1997, Trump said that although Machado put on 60 pounds in just nine months, there’s just no way he would strip away her title, putting to bed rumors that her weight was threatening her continued possession of the Miss Universe title, which she won in 1996.

“Some people when they have pressure eat too much. Like me. Like Alicia,” said Trump, who was executive producer of the Miss Universe Pageant at the time.

“We had a choice of: termination or do this,” he added. “We wanted to do this.”

For Trump, “this” meant exercise to get her weight down to a reasonable 130 pounds.

When reporters complained, Trump told them in response, “A lot of you folks have weight problems. I hate to tell you.”

Clinton brought up Machado as an example of Trump’s horrible treatment of women and noted that Machado would be voting for her, come November.

Following the debate, Trump appeared Tuesday on “Fox & Friends” and reaffirmed that in 1997, Machado had “gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem.”

“She was the winner and you know, she gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem. We had a real problem,” Trump said. “Not only that, her attitude, and we had a real problem with her, so Hillary went back into the years and she found this girl — this was many years ago. And found the girl and talked about her like she was Mother Theresa. And it wasn’t quite that way but that’s ok. Hillary has to do what she has to do.”

Through encouragement of exercise, Trump did apparently manage to bring Machado down to a reasonably weight, though she later complained she suffered from anorexia for years after.

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