The Associated Press reported that in another leaked email, Mr Powell, using Ms Clinton’s initials, wrote that “Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris”.
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“The whole birther movement was racist”, Powell said in an email sent August 21, also addressed to Miller, who now works as a political correspondent for One America News Network. “A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home (according to the NYP)”.
Among the leaked documents was an email exchange between Powell and corporate financier and Democratic donor Jeffery Leeds showing that Clinton hated Obama for losing the 2008 election, according to the New York Post.
Details are gradually emerging about Powell’s emails, which were published by DCLeaks.com, a site with reported but unconfirmed ties to Russian intelligence.
Powell confirmed the authenticity of emails, telling NBC news that “the hackers have a lot more”.
“I told her staff three times not to try that gambit”.
Powell, also a Republican, called the birther movement (President Barack Obama’s citizenship conspiracy theory), which Trump helped lead, “racist”.
Last month, Powell wrote that the Clinton camp largely ignored him when he advised them to knock off that line of defense.
“That’s what the 99% believe”, Powell wrote. “I have to say, I’m increasingly concerned by how we’ve seen Donald Trump’s alarming closeness with the Kremlin become more and more clear over the course of this campaign”. Notably, the former Army general also had harsh words for Trump, calling the Republican a “national disgrace” and “international pariah”. But he did report about how Powell believed the birther issue was racist, and Powell’s thoughts on Clinton’s e-mail woes.
Powell didn’t mince words about his view of Trump and his behavior.
“The only thing I would add is to simply say she had a private account on a public server before becoming SecState and continued to use it when she became SecState”.
Powell is a prominent Republican, and the leaking of the emails will cause embarrassment for the GOP ahead of the upcoming election in which Trump hopes to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Powell did not respond to a phone message or email seeking comment. The stolen emails have been given to DCLeaks.com. On HD tv she doesn’t look doesn’t look good.
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Asked if any classified data was transmitted in Powell’s private emails, the straight-faced former Ambassador to the United Nations appeared to joke: “On advice of counsel I’m not going to answer that question”, adding: “I don’t really remember”.
