Kissed and made up! Runner-up Miss USA Carrie Prejean swoons over Trump at rally after she accused the New York Times of 'twisting' quotes for 'hit piece' on The Donald

A runner-up Miss USA has been been spotted swooning over Trump at a rally - just two weeks after she accused the New York Times of 'twisting' her quotes for their 'hit piece' on The Donald.

Carrie Prejean made a very public show of support for the presumptive Republican nominee at his rally in San Diego, California, Friday, where she was pictured blowing kisses at him from the front row before giving him a hug. 

The display follows a row over comments published in The Times earlier this month which appeared to criticize the real estate mogul.

The article, dismissed by Trump as a 'lame hit piece', featured claims from dozens of women from The Donald's past who painted the picture of a businessman obsessed with the appearance and bodies of the women who he was involved with both professionally and romantically.

Prejean was quoted at length in the piece where she appeared to attack him over his behavior during a Miss USA pageant which had made many female contestants feel 'humiliated' and left some 'sobbing backstage.'

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Carrie Prejean made a very public show of support for the presumptive Republican nominee at his rally in San Diego, California, Friday 

Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean was pictured embracing the Republican U.S. presidential candidate

Prejean, had been spotted blowing kisses at him from the front row before briefly speaking with Trump

But Prejean said that she had never been interviewed by The Times and that her comments had been taken, out of context, from her memoir.

She insisted that she had nothing critical to say about Trump - and felt the the newspaper had twisted her words.  

Another woman quoted in the piece, Rowanne Brewer Lane, has also accused the paper of fabricating quotes.

Trump himself has called it a hit piece. Separately an analysis by Daily Mail Online reveals that although the paper claimed to have conducted 'dozens' of interviews, it only reported on three women who had not spoken before about Trump – of whom two were quoted in a critical fashion.

Prejean, who was Miss California USA in 2009 and has since become a married mother of two young children, told radio broadcaster Sean Hannity she had been approached repeatedly to discuss her dealings with Trump, then the joint owner of the Miss USA pageant.

'Back in March when they started this whole campaign against him, there were several reporters that had reached out to me, telling me that they were doing an interview about Trump, and women, and how he treats women,' she said.

'And I told them, 'I'm not going to be doing an interview at this time.'

'I said I'm not interested. I'm a mom, you know, I'm a wife, I started a business. I'm not interested. 

'And I said, 'And by the way, I have nothing bad to say about him, so go get it from someone else.' 

'So what did they do? They quoted something from my book. And what upsets me is they say in this article in the New York Times, they say The New York Times interviewed dozens of women who had worked with or for Mr Trump, and so it made it seem like they interviewed me recently. 

'Which – that's not true. So they're lying.'

The original article acknowledges that the quotes from Prejean are from her book, but does not mention her saying: 'I have nothing bad to say about him.'

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In the course of the 15-minute interview she said:'They took a little tiny thing from my book and they twisted it. 

'And if they would have actually read on, I talk very highly of Mr. Trump. I don't say anything negative about him.

'Just below what they quoted, on page 68 [of her book], I said that most of us respect Donald Trump and he's an amazing businessman and leader. Why didn't they put that in the piece?'

The Times has so far stood by its piece but has come under increasing scrutiny for it.

Prejean's intervention is likely to be highlighted by Trump, who was vocal in his criticism of the New York Times on Twitter on Monday.

He has already called the article 'proven false' and 'totally dishonest'.

Prejean suggested the paper had acted dishonestly.  

'As soon as they wrote this piece, without even getting an interview from me, and making it seem like I gave them an exclusive – you know, they took a little tiny thing from my book about, they totally took it out of context. 

'I mean, I was saying what goes on behind the scenes, and they lied and said it was backstage. It wasn't backstage. 

'And they totally took it out of context and they just ran with it, and it just goes to show how dishonest they are. I mean, really. 

'And so I just want to clear the record out there, that I have nothing but amazing things to say about Donald Trump. 

'He has helped so many women, and it's time they come out of the woodwork and it's time they started speaking their mind and saying how, you know, what such wonderful things that he's done for them. So many careers, so many opportunities. He's helped so many women, and it's time we started standing up for him.' 

Prejean made clear that she was a political supporter of Trump and suggested the New York Times was attempting to undermine him.

'He's the Republican nominee,' she said.

'We have to support him. He is going to do so many things for this country.

''They're digging and they can't find anything. So they need to give up. They need to give up.'

Prejean's lengthy attack on The New York Times comes after Trump's former girlfriend Rowanne Brewer, blasted paper on Monday for 'fabricating' her quotes.

Brewer also slammed the paper's retelling of her story, describing it as 'false' and demanded an apology.

The original story had described the billionaire's first meeting with the young model as 'a debasing face-to-face encounter between Mr. Trump and a young woman he hardly knew.'

'Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes,' the newspaper reported, describing a moment where he offered her a swimsuit to wear at a pool party.  

But speaking on Fox & Friends on Monday morning, Brewer said Trump 'never made me feel like I was being demeaned in any way. He never offended me in any way.'

'He was very gracious,' she continued. 'I saw him around all types of people, around all types of women. He was very kind, thoughtful, generous. You know, he was a gentleman.'

Asked if Trump had ever mistreated women, she answered without hesitation: 'Not that I've ever seen. Absolutely without a doubt, no.'

Former girlfriend Rowanne Brewer Lane blasted the Times on Monday, claiming the paper fabricated part the article, calling the paper's retelling of her story 'false' and demanding an apology. 

Rowanne Brewer Lane (pictured with Trump, right, in 1990) told the Times of a time at Trump's pool party at Mar-a-Lago in 1990 when he asked her to put on a swimsuit. She says the paper fabricated quotes

Separately an analysis of the initial New York Times article by Daily Mail Online reveals that it unearthed virtually nothing new. 

The piece, published online on Saturday and in Sunday's edition of the paper, says: 'The New York Times interviewed dozens of women...

'In total, more than 50 interviews were conducted over the course of six weeks.'

The piece itself carries quotes from a total of 16 people, including Trump himself.

Of those quotes, 12 are from women. Nine of those women had spoken before about their experience of Trump, meaning there were only three new interviewees, one of whom was supportive of the billionaire.

It is clear that at best four had never spoken about Donald Trump before.

While some of the former employees, beauty queens and ex-girlfriends featured in the article claim their comments were taken out of context and even fabricated, others have told the same, virtually word-for-word anecdotes several times across media sites.

And some interviewees, though not sharing the same stories they've previously told, have maintained strong opinions - both negative and positive - toward the presidential candidate over the years. 

Alicia Machado, Miss Universe 1996, told the Times of her experiences with eating disorders and gaining weight after winning the beauty contest.

She told the paper: 'I told the president of Miss Universe, a very sweet woman, I said I need some time to recuperate, to rest, to exercise, to eat right.'I asked them to bring me a doctor to help me - to have a special diet and get exercise, and they said yes. 

'They took me to New York, installed me in a hotel. The next day, they took me to the gym, and I'm exposed to 90 media outlets. Donald Trump was there. I had no idea that would happen.

The Republican presumptive nominee attacked the New York Times in a lengthy tirade on social media this morning claiming that 'everyone is laughing' at the 'failing' newspaper for the story

'I was about to cry in that moment with all the cameras there. I said, 'I don't want to do this, Mr. Trump'. He said, 'I don't care'.'

Machado previously told The Washington Post the same anecdote in May 1997.

The Times article also takes readers back to Trump's days in high school, where he was named a 'ladies man' in his yearbook.

Former classmate George White recalled to the Times the occasions in which girls were allowed at the all-boys school.

White has previously given strikingly similar accounts to the Washington Post and NPR.

'The type of women who were coming up to see him or he was bringing were definitely from the upper levels of New York society,' White told NPR in November. 'I mean, I remember there were so many, it was a revolving door.'

Alair Townsend, former deputy mayor of New York during the Ed Koch administration, didn't have an anecdote to share with the Times about the presidential candidate, she has maintained her same, negative opinion of him for nearly 20 years.

'He was dismissive. It was always 'Hon', 'Dear', things he wouldn't have said to man,' she told the Times. 'It was designed to make you feel small. And he did that repeatedly.'

Back in 1997, Townsend was also critical of Trump, telling the The New Yorker that she 'wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized'. 

Former Trump executive Louise Sunshine told the Times that the presidential candidate criticized her weight more than once, but his comments helped her keep her weight down.

‘Louise Sunshine experienced similar observations from Mr. Trump when she gained weight. But she saw it as friendly encouragement, not a cruel insult. “He thought I looked much better thin,’ she said. “He would remind me of how beautiful I was.”’ The New York Times article reads.

She previously told the The Washington Post in November that Trump would keep an unflattering photo of her in his drawer - a ‘fat picture’ that he would pull out as ‘a reminder that I wasn’t perfect’, Sunshine said.

‘From the standpoint of being a woman, I just thought he was phenomenal,’ she told the Washington Post. ‘So supportive and encouraging… He gave me the ropes, and I could either hang myself or prove myself.’