Buried in the sheer ugliness of Donald Trump’s series of early morning tweets attacking former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, there’s a point that deserves a second look, followed perhaps by a point and laugh.
Trump wants his supporters to be suspicious that Hillary Clinton is out using her influence to turn immigrants into citizens (though, let’s be honest, pale-skinned beauty queens are not the usual stuff of Trump supporters’ nightmares about immigrants). But, Greg Sargent writes:
The Clinton campaign has not yet commented. But it’s unclear how Clinton might have done this, if she had wanted to. Immigration attorney David Leopold tells me it’s conceivable but highly unlikely that the Clinton campaign encouraged Machado to become a citizen, but even so, that there’s no way any telephone calls, even if they had been made, would succeed in speeding the process. And in any case, Leopold notes, this process could take anywhere from five months to a year, so Clinton would have had to get involved many months ago. “It’s clear Trump has no idea how the citizenship process works,” Leopold says.
However, Sargent points out, Machado has been clear all along that she did become a citizen to vote—against Trump, because of the humiliation and abuse she’s spoken out on. She told Inside Edition:
Machado said she became an American citizen “for my daughter, my country, and to [exercise] my right to vote. The United States is in a very important moment and we need to take the power to go and vote.”
Way to go, Donald.
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