Leaked Emails Reveal What Colin Powell Really Thought of Hillary’s Email Scandal
The emails DC Leaks released Tuesday night from former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s private email account provided some insight into his thoughts on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.
Clinton had previously tried to establish that Powell convinced her to use a private server, a move he said was her effort to throw him under the bus. And in one of emails, sent a few days after Clinton’s server was seized, he complained about it to private equity investor Jeffrey Leeds.
“HRC may be in serious trouble,” Leeds wrote. “And she sounds terrible thing to spin. Worse every day.”
“Agree, press has started asking Peggy and me about our use,” Powell responded. “We have answered 3 IG questionnaire and are clean. A newsie asked today to interview me on my use. Told them to read my book, Chapter on ‘Brainware.'”
He said the Clinton campaign was messing things up, and that when he used private email, it was “more like a telephone than a cable machine,” as long as the content was unclassified. He used his secure State Department email for all classified correspondence.
“Everything HRC touches, she kind of screws up with hubris,” he wrote. “I told you about the gig I lost at a university because she so overcharged them they came under heat and couldn’t (pay) any fees for awhile. I should send her a bill.”
Powell, it would seem, is at least receptive to Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comments last weekend, though. In the same email, he said he saw it was “conceivable” that Trump would win the Republican presidential nomination because he appealed to “the worst angels of the GOP nature and poor white folks.”
