What Colin Powell's Hacked Emails Say About Trump and Hillary

source: usatoday.com

Former secretary of State Colin Powell's personal emails were released Tuesday after being obtained by hackers. If there's one overarching theme of the email trove, it's that Powell is not a practitioner of the "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all" philosophy.

Powell had some cutting comments about a lot of the nation's top political figures. His emails calling Donald Trump a "national disgrace" and decrying "Hillary's mafia" have made national headlines, but that wasn't all he had to say about the presidential candidates — and some others.

Here is a Powell insult highlight reel:

'I'd rather not vote for her' 

In a July 26, 2014 email to Democratic donor Jeffrey Leeds, Powell gave a harsh take onHillary Clinton, whom he called "a friend I respect."

"I would rather not vote for her," Powell wrote. "A 70-year-old person with a long track-record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still d---ing bimbos at home (according to the NYP)."

With friends like these, who needs enemies, huh Hillary?

Trump is a 'know nothing'

"I have been using the theme that [Trump] has captured the frustration and disappointment of average folks and not just racist nuts," Powell wrote in a May 2016 email seen by BuzzFeedto his former chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson. "But he is not the solution to their problems and angst."

"He is a know nothing," Powell continued. 

'Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up'

In an Aug. 18, 2015, email, Powell wrote that everything Hillary Clinton "touches she kind of screws up with hubris." He blamed Clinton for losing him a "gig" at a University because "she so overcharged them they came under heat and couldn't any fees for awhile." In the same email, Powell said Trump "appeals to the worst angels of the GOP nature and poor white folks." He also said former FOX News CEO Roger Ailes ended his brief feud with Trump because of the high ratings Trump brought. So, Ailes sent "Megyn Kelly off to get over her period," Powell wrote.

The Cheneys 'are idiots' 

Powell was not terribly supportive of a book former vice president Dick Cheney wrote with his daughter, Liz, in 2015. "They are idiots and spent force peddling a book that ain't going nowhere," the retired general wrote in an email seen by BuzzFeed News.

'Benghazi is a stupid witch hunt'

"Benghazi is a stupid witch hunt," Powell wrote in a December 2015 email to fellow former secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "Basic fault falls on a courageous ambassador who thoughts Libyans now love me and I am ok in this very vulnerable place." Powell was referring to Ambassador Christopher Stevens who was killed in the 2012 attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya. “But blame also rests on his leaders and supports back here. Pat Kennedy, Intel community, DS and yes HRC.” "Completely agree," Rice replies.

Trump military adviser is a "right-wing nutty" 

Powell is apparently no fan of fellow retired general Michael Flynn. He called Flynn, who is serving as a top military adviser to Trump, a "right-wing nutty" in a July 19, 2016, email to his son, Michael, that was seen by BuzzFeed. "Real question is how he got that far in the Army," Powell wrote.

"Gen. Flynn is a jerk. Got canned out of DIA," Powell wrote in another email.

Trump is like Jerry Springer 

"GOP campaigns are a reality show with Trump playing the role of Jerry Springer," Powell wrote in a November 2015 email, according to BuzzFeed. "So, I don't watch or linger on any of it. They will pass."

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