He has not endorsed Clinton or Republican rival Donald Trump.
Advertisement
The Colin Powell email hack continues to churn out some eye-popping messages – from the former Secretary of State expressing bitter resentment at Hillary’s “minions” trying to drag him into her email scandal by drawing false equivalencies, to his brutal assessment of Donald Trump, to his smackdown of Hillary’s self-destructive hubris. During an interview with FBI investigators, the Democratic nominee said Powell had advised her to use a personal email and that he did the same while serving as secretary of state.
A cybersecurity firm during that time said the hacker who claimed credit for acquiring the emails was likely Russian, not Romanian as he let on, and may reportedly have ties to Vladimir Putin’s intelligence network.
“Yup, the whole birther movement was racist”, Powell wrote in an August 21 email, as reported by Buzzfeed.
The leaked emails indicate Powell was angry with Hillary Clinton over her handling of personal email while serving as secretary of State and sought to contrast how he handled the issue.
“Yup, the whole birther movement was racist”, Powell wrote in an email to a former aide, according to BuzzFeed.
But he bristled at attempts by Clinton and Democratic officials to compare his use of private emails while in the office to her use of a private server.
It’s no surprise Powell doesn’t like Trump, but he’s kept that opinion to himself. He also said former FOX News CEO Roger Ailes ended his brief feud with Trump because of the high ratings Trump brought. “When Trump couldn’t keep that up he said he also wanted to see if the certificate noted that he was a Muslim”, Powell wrote.
Powell wrote in another email that Trump’s attempts to win over black voters is a “schizo fantasy” because of “what he tried to do to Obama with his search for the birth certificate”. “I saw e-mail more like a telephone than a cable machine”, Powell wrote previous year to his business partner Jeffrey Leeds. Powell also wrote, “As I have said before, ‘What if he was?’ Muslims are born as Americans everyday”.
As recently as last week, Democrats were pointing to Powell’s influence to show that her decision to use a private server was not the first. In a good catch, The DC notes that Powell’s virtual interlocutor responded to this observation about Hillary’s physical appearance by relaying a story from Sen.
“A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still d– bimbos at home (according to the NYP)”, Powell wrote, apparently referring to the New York Post.
Advertisement
In May, Powell messaged with a former colleague as the State Department’s inspector general prepared to release a report critical of both his and Clinton’s use of private email to conduct government business.
