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Colin Powell calls Trump 'national disgrace' in leaked emails
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emails were shared to DCLeaks.com detailing former Secretary of State
Colin Powell's dislike for Donald Trump. (MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA).
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Colin Powell lambasts Donald Trump as 'national disgrace' in leaked emails: report
Leaked emails were shared to DCLeaks.com detailing former Secretary of State Colin Powell's dislike for Donald Trump.
(MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA)The retired four-star Army general flat-out called the braggart real estate mogul from New York a “national disgrace” and an “international pariah,” disparaging the GOP nominee's credibility in a personal email to former aide and journalist Emily Miller.
Powell added that Democrats need not attack Hillary Clinton’s Republican rival because Trump was “in the process of destroying himself” — without their help.
The colorful email was sent June 17, 2016 and was later leaked through a password-protected page on DCLeaks.com, a website that House lawmakers fear is linked to the same Russian hackers taunting Hillary Clinton’s White House bid.
It’s unclear how the email and other personal messages from Secretary Powell were obtained. The website keeps a portfolio of leaked documents for other public figures, such as Clinton herself and former President Bill Clinton.
In another leaked correspondence, Powell slammed Trump for egging on the “racist” birther conspiracy theory that questioned the legality of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
Colin Powell slapped GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump as a “national disgrace” and an “international pariah.”
(JIM LO SCALZO/EPA)“That’s what the 99% believe,” Buzzfeed reported Powell as writing. “When Trump couldn’t keep that up he said he also wanted to see if the certificate noted that he was a Muslim.”
Buzzfeed initially reported that Powell did not deny the validity of the leaked emails, but he had “no further comment.”
Powell came under fire most recently for encouraging newly-appointed Secretary of State Clinton to communicate with friends and world leaders through a private computer and email address to avoid “going through the State Department servers,” he wrote in 2009.
The scrutinized habit among state officials of using personal email, computers and servers — like the one Clinton used at her Chappaqua — has raised concerns that a third-party could access potentially damning and even confidential documents.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has been caught up in Hillary Clinton's server woes.
(Carolyn Kaster/AP)“I had to throw a mini tantrum at a Hampton’s party to get their attention,” Powell wrote.
Powell’s emails are among the latest documents put on public display following a months-long hacking spree targeting high-ranking officials ahead of the November election.
Authorities suspect a hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 — possibly linked to Russia’s military intelligence agency — is behind one chunk of email leaks that forced Dems chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign amid Clinton’s historic party nomination.
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