No, her life history is not on trial, but her breach of contract is.
Set the contract issue to one side for one moment and look at the life history from this vantage
point: Candidates and office holders, in both parties, have been forced to withdraw from races,
surrender nominations, or resign from office over far lesser questions than those raised by Ms.
Machado's life history and the legal and ethical questions around a good portion of it.
Donaldus Minimus could have scored---if you'll pardon the expression---
yuuuuuge in the
debate if he had trained his fire upon Ms. Machado's legal and ethical questions and, by extension,
raised further questions about Hilarious Rodent Clinton and her team's willingness or ability to vet
personnel reasonably.
As for the contract issue, all he would have had to say was that she violated a portion of her
contract pertaining to her weight and conditioning. But no. He had to throw in the insults,
which plays
right into Hilarious's hands and allows to go unchallenged the question as to
why Hilarious and company were comfortable with a woman carrying a little too much ethical
baggage for comfort. A question that, I repeat, has sometimes felled candidates or office
holders in the past and would be deadly if applicable to an elected and sitting president.
