Powell: Clinton’s team trying to blame me for email scandal

Published August 22, 2016 10:55am ET



Hillary Clinton is trying to use Colin Powell as a scapegoat to vindicate herself over her private email server and her mishandling of classified information, Powell said over the weekend.

“Her people have been trying to pin it on me,” the former secretary of state said in an interview published Sunday night in People magazine. “The truth is, she was using [the private email server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did.”

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