Emails between former secretary of state Colin Powell and a business partner leaked on the Web Tuesday evening, revealing more than a year of exchanges between the two on topics ranging from what they perceived as Hillary Clinton’s poor health to Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and the “celebrification” of American society.
The messages, exchanged between Powell and Jeffrey Leeds, a New York financier and major Democratic donor, were released by DCLeaks, the same website responsible for publishing hacked documents obtained from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations in August.
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The emails reveal the two agreed on Clinton’s poor health as far back as March 2015, with Leeds even suggesting he had learned of the issue from a Democratic senator. “On HD tv she doesn’t look good,” Powell wrote in one message. “She is working herself to death … She will turn 70 her first year in office.”
Leeds replied twelve minutes later. “Sheldon Whitehouse, who is a huge Clinton supporter said they were both giving speeches at the same event a few months back and she could barely climb the podium steps,” Leeds wrote, referencing Rhode Island’s junior senator.
In August 2015, Powell complained about Clinton invoking his name to resolve her email issues. “They are going to dick up the legitimate and necessary use of emails with friggin record rules. I saw email more like a telephone than a cable machine … I had a secure State.gov machine.”
“Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris,” Powell added. “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.”
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Powell also lamented the decline of American culture. “Culture is going with it and the ties that bind. An increasing theme in my speeches: celebrification of our society … FOX got the highest ratings ever after the debate so Ailes makes friends again with Trump and sends Megyn Kelly off to get over her period. Hey [nothing] personal, just business.”
Powell reiterated the complaint about her server in an email dated August 28, 2016. “Sad thing [is] that HRC could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me into it. I told her staff three times not to try that gambit. I had to throw a mini tantrum at a Hampton’s party to get their attention. She keeps tripping into these ‘character’ minefields.”
Leeds did not return a request for comment from the Washington Examiner. DCLeaks, the organization responsible for leaking the documents, has published files obtained from institutions across the ideological spectrum, including emails from Republican Senate staffers in the offices of Arizona Sen. John McCain and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, as well as personal information for more than 200 Democratic lawmakers.
