Beauty and the Beast: The presidential campaign has become a debate about a former beauty queen and a former president’s infidelity.

Donald Trump opened a new line of attack on Hillary Clinton’s marriage, telling the NY Times, “Hillary Clinton was married to the single greatest abuser of women in the history of politics,” referring to former President Bill Clinton. “Hillary was an enabler, and she attacked the women who Bill Clinton mistreated afterward. I think it’s a serious problem for them, and it’s something that I’m considering talking about more in the near future.”

Trump has been married three times and became involved with his second wife while still married to the first.

Then there’s the beauty queen. Donald Trump woke up at 3 am yesterday and let loose a barrage of tweets about the former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, whom he had criticized for gaining weight after she won the title in 1996. Hillary Clinton introduced the issue Monday night to get under Trump’s skin, and succeeded beyond expectations. Trump tweeted, “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?”

There’s no evidence that Clinton helped Machado become a citizen, or that Machado ever performed in a sex tape.

Clinton said before a campaign crowd, “His latest twitter meltdown is unhinged, even for him.”

In his defense, Trump tweeted, “For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o’clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!”

Commentator Ana Navarro said on CNN, “Donald Trump is the only person I know who drunk tweets sober.”

Train Crash: Investigators are still trying to recover data from the recorders on the New Jersey Transit train that crashed into the central station in Hoboken, NJ. The front car is so badly damaged that the NTSB says it isn’t safe to send anyone in there to get the black box recorder.

The train was not equipped with what’s called Positive Train Control, automatic sensors that control speed in an emergency. New Jersey Transit is the third busiest system in the country, but it’s running in the red and has been without an executive director for a year.

Nation: Police in El Cajon, Calif., released the video of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, an incident that resulted in street protests.

The video shows two officers confronting Alfred Olango, 38, who goes into a two-handed pose as if he is aiming a handgun. He was later found to have held an electronic cigarette.

>Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy Moore has been suspended for the remainder of his term for ordering the state’s 68 probate judges to refuse marriage licenses to same-sex couples, contrary to the US Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. His term ends in 2019.

Moore was removed from the same office in 2003 for refusing to remove a large representation of the Ten Commandments from the state judicial building.

The Obit Page: Joseph Harmatz, a survivor of the Holocaust who was part of a plot after World War II to poison the water supply and kill millions of Germans in retribution, has died at age 91 in Tel Aviv. The plot failed, but Harmatz and his co-conspirators had mild success sickening 2,200 captured members of the SS by painting their bread with arsenic and glue.

Pastrami on Cry: New York’s Carnegie Deli, which has been plating up four-inch, heart-stopping meat sandwiches since 1937, is closing Dec. 31 after the owner announced she’s just too worn out by the restaurant business. She’s made herself into an order to go.

The deli is just down the street from Carnegie Hall. The owner, Marian Harper, said in a statement, “The restaurant business is one of the hardest jobs in New York City.” The Stage Deli, which offered similar fare, closed in 2012. One man tweeted about the Carnegie closing, “haven’t the Jewish people suffered enough.”

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