The Times reports that during her “interview with the FBI into the use of the email server, Mrs. Clinton told investigators that Mr. Powell had advised her to use a personal email account, according to notes of the interview disclosed to members of Congress by the bureau last month”. In recent days Democrats have been trying to take the heat off Clinton’s arrangement by releasing an email showing Powell giving her advice on how to use email.
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He trashed Trump for his birther crusade against President Obama, saying, “He is at 1% black voters and will drop”. He can never overcome what he tried to do to Obama with his search for the birth certificate hoping to force Obama out of the Presidency.
“We have confirmed that the general has been hacked and that these are his emails”, spokeswoman Peggy Cifrino said.
Trump’s campaign pushed back, with spokesman Jason Miller branding Mr Schneiderman “a partisan hack” whose probe “is nothing more than a left-wing hit job created to distract from Crooked Hillary Clinton’s disastrous week”.
In May, following Clinton’s first news conference explaining her use of a private email server, Powell wrote about her physical appearance.
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.
Former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who served with Powell in Republican George W. Bush’s administration, agreed, writing to Powell that: “I don’t think Hillary’s ‘everyone did it, ‘ is flying.”Powell was harsher in an August 21 message to a friend and former aide, writing: “Well, their email ploy this week didn’t work and she once again looks shifty if not a liar”.
“I warned her (Clinton) staff three times over the past two years not to try to connect it to me”.
Another interesting exchange is from March 2015, when Powell and his business associate Jeffrey Leeds discussed Clinton’s health problems.
Leeds claims that another senator informed him Clinton “could barely climb the podium steps” when the two gave a speech at an event. “I will watch and pick the timing, not respond to the latest outrage”. Lindsey Graham, S.C., a rival GOP presidential candidate, Powell said: “Trump has no sense of shame”.
He also called Clinton “greedy, not transformational”. “I saw email more like a telephone than a cable machine”, Powell wrote in one email. “She is working herself to death”, he said.
Another US secretary of state has been affected by an email breach.
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Another Powell email blames Clinton for hogging university speaking gigs.
