Trump attacks 'classic RINO' Colin Powell one day after his death

Former President Donald Trump criticized the late Colin Powell on Tuesday for his role in launching the Iraq War and being a “classic RINO.”

“Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media,” Trump wrote in a statement the day after Powell, the first black secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died due to complications from COVID-19. “Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!”