Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is suddenly at the center of the presidential campaign because of a batch of stolen emails from his Gmail account.
The emails were posted by an anonymously run website called DCLeaks, that may have ties to Russian intelligence. A Powell spokesman has confirmed that the general’s email was hacked, and that they have “no idea who did it and no further comment at this time.”
In the latest email hacks trending on twitter under #DNCLeak, Powell discusses Hillary Clinton, her email scandal, her health, and her apparent hatred of President Obama.
Powell emails show his explanation of how his use of private email was fully legal and Clinton’s was not. He expresses serious anger at the Clinton campaign’s attempts to compare her conduct and email server use to his own while he was Secretary of State. The emails show Powell has been concerned about this issue for more than a year and expressed frustrations with how Clinton has approached the scandal and his own relationship to it
Powell provides what could be damaging insight to Clinton’s health. In a series of emails with Jeffrey Leeds, who heads the Leeds Equity Partners investment firm and is also a top Democratic Party donor. Powell is a member of the Leeds Partners advisory board. In one email to Leeds, Powell writes that Clinton “does not look good” and is “working herself to death.” Leeds also weighs in on the Clinton email scandal and added that “nobody likes her.”
The truly most damaging thing for the Clinton campaign in this pile of hacked emails are the discussions about President Obama and how Clinton apparently feels about him personally. Make no mistake, Hillary Clinton’s liberal supporters will clearly forgive her for almost anything — from lying to the FBI to lying to everyone else about her health. But any evidence that shows she does not like their untouchable hero in President Obama will be the toughest pill to swallow
In several emails from Leeds to Powell, Leeds says that Clinton hates and envies the president in the extreme. Leeds adds that she will sometimes refer to President Obama as “that man.” Finally, Leeds tells Powell that the Obama team wouldn’t mind seeing Clinton lose
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