Poor? Hillary Clinton, the hits just keep a’coming.
Leaked emails from Colin Powell show that the former secretary of state under President George W. Bush warned “Hillary’s mafia” about using him as a fall guy in the email scandal hanging over the Democratic presidential nominee.
In an email to Beth Jones written days after it was disclosed that Clinton used a personal email account and private server as secretary of state, Powell was clear that Team Hillary was trying to blame him, The Daily Caller reported.
“Been having fun with emailgate,” Powell wrote. “Hillary’s Mafia keeps trying to suck me into it,”
According to the Daily Caller, Powell’s emails were published online by DC Leaks, a website that publishes documents hacked from military leaders and political figures.
Another email showed that Powell interacted directly with top Clinton aide, Cheryl Mills, who served as Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, warning her about linking him to the email scandal.
“You really don’t want to get me into this,” he wrote in the email. “I haven’t been asked nor said a word about HRC and won’t unless you all start it.”
Mills reassured Powell that she agreed and told him “that message has been clearly shared.”
“So she will not nor will anyone she controls,” she said, adding that “I can’t address folks who are beyond that so please ping or call me when you see anything that worries you.”
Powell would “ping” Mills less than two weeks later over comments made by Clinton adviser James Carville.
“James is out there screaming away about me and Jeb doing the same thing and getting away with it,” Powell wrote. “Not only is he factually wrong it ain’t working He is just throwing more logs on her fire.
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