Hacked Colin Powell Emails Reveal New Bombshell In Hillary's Email Scandal

Twitchy Staff | 10:01 AM on September 14, 2016

One of the Clinton campaign’s favorite excuses for using a private email server is that former Secretary of State Colin Powell also did it during his tenure.

While Colin Powell has repeatedly denied any connection to Clinton’s email scandal, a new hack that released two years of Powell’s emails reveals just how wrong Hillary Clinton has been.

“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,” he wrote.

In a separate email, Powell said he “warned her staff three times over the past two years not to try to connect it to me. I am not sure HRC even knew or understood what was going on in the basement.”

The Clinton campaign’s attempt to try to say Powell had encouraged the use of a private server left him deeply troubled.

“They are going to dick up the legitimate and necessary use of emails with friggin (sic) record rules. I saw email more like a telephone than a cable machine,” Powell wrote to business partner Jeffrey Leeds. “As long as the stuff is unclassified. I had a secure State.gov machine. Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.”

Yikes. Good luck explaining this one, Hillary.