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SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 07:52 PM Sep 2016

Colin Powell Calls Trump A “National Disgrace” In Personal Emails

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/colin-powell-calls-trump-national-disgrace-in-personal-email?utm_term=.vyjZjgzrgp#.bubOePNEPd
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a retired four-star general who served under three Republican presidents, slammed GOP nominee Donald Trump as a “a national disgrace” and an “international pariah,” according to his personal emails seen by BuzzFeed News.

The remarks came in a June 17, 2016, email to Emily Miller, a journalist who was once Powell’s aide. In that same email Powell also said Trump “is in the process of destroying himself, no need for Dems to attack him. [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan is calibrating his position again.”


And in an Aug. 21 email from Powell to Miller, he blasted Trump for embarking on a “racist” movement that believes President Obama was not born in the US.


So how bad do you think the Trump response going to be?
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Colin Powell Calls Trump A “National Disgrace” In Personal Emails (Original Post) SaschaHM Sep 2016 OP
hey, colin, your lies and willingness to do anything for the pukes certainly helped bring this niyad Sep 2016 #1
Was he hacked? MadBadger Sep 2016 #2
Yup tavernier Sep 2016 #4
Powell will always regret making the wmd case for W but Shoalbiz Sep 2016 #3
Before WMD was My Lai awoke_in_2003 Sep 2016 #6
I guess the dude who willingly worked for another "National Disgrace" would know. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2016 #5

niyad

(113,570 posts)
1. hey, colin, your lies and willingness to do anything for the pukes certainly helped bring this
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 09:50 PM
Sep 2016

deplorable person to the stage as the head of your party.

 

Shoalbiz

(36 posts)
3. Powell will always regret making the wmd case for W but
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 10:07 PM
Sep 2016

I always thought he was a stand-up guy, nonetheless. I'm sure he's not the only former SoS who thinks Trump is a national disgrace.

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