Colin Powell wrote in a jaw-dropping e-mail that he doesn’t want to vote for his pal Hillary Clinton because she’s a greedy defender of the status quo whose husband is “still d–king bimbos at home (according to the NYP)” — the New York Post.
“I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect,” the former secretary of state wrote Democratic donor Jeffrey Leeds on July 26, 2014.
“A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still d–kng bimbos at home (according to the NYP),” reads the explosive e-mail obtained by the Web site DCLeaks. Hillary is actually 68.
Powell sent the message just days after The Post revealed in May that Bill Clinton allegedly has a blond mistress who visits his Chappaqua home so often, she was dubbed “the Energizer” by the Secret Service.
The story referenced Ronald Kessler’s book “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of Presidents,” which named Clinton’s Chappaqua neighbor Julie Tauber McMahon as the other woman.
Asked about the e-mail’s authenticity, Powell told The Post, “Jeez, don’t remember this one. Best to ignore, don’t you think?”
Powell also wrote several other e-mails critical of his fellow former secretary of state. In one dated Aug. 18, 2015, he blames her for his losing a lucrative speaking engagement.
“Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris. I told you about the gig I lost at a University because she so overcharged them they came under heat and couldn’t [pay] any fees for awhile. I should send her a bill,” Powell griped.
On Aug. 23, 2016, he blasted the controversy over the private e-mail server in the basement of Clinton’s home, in an e-mail to Harlan Ullman, a former naval officer who is now a government security consultant.
“Dumb. She should have done a ‘Full Monty’ [disclose everything] at the beginning. She was using e-mail when she took over. They put the personal system in the basement a few months later,” he wrote, adding that Hillary tried to give herself cover by saying he, too, had used private e-mail while in office.
“She didn’t need any advice or OK from me; she was already doing it. I gave her written guidance on why and how I had been doing it,” he wrote. “I 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.”
Powell doesn’t spare Donald Trump either, calling him “a national disgrace” and an “international pariah.”
On Aug. 21, 2016, he wrote to former Clinton administration aide Marybel Batjer that people hate Trump — but also can’t stand Hillary.
“Most folks up here detest Trump and won’t vote for him, but dislike her intensely at the same time. Ah, well the country will decide,” Powell wrote.
In the same message, he mocked the GOP nominee’s ham-handed attempts to reach out to minority communities, writing, “Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.”
In another e-mail, he blasted the birther movement, which Trump stoked by questioning where President Obama was born. “The whole birther movement was racist,” Powell wrote.
Trump lashed back in a tweet just before midnight Thursday, writing, “I was never a fan of Colin Powell after his weak understanding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq = disaster. We can do much better!”
The e-mail chain referring to “bimbos” began July 26, 2014, when Leeds wrote, “Spent the day with Rudy [Giuliani] and [former Maine Gov.] Jock McKernan. Fun golf and interesting politics. I got Rudy to admit the president is a decent man. They don’t think Hillary is stoppable. Everyone is beatable,” Leeds replied.
Giuliani on Wednesday got a good laugh when he read Powell’s e-mails — but disputed any claim that he ever believed Hillary Clinton was “unstoppable,” saying, “I never thought Hillary wasn’t beatable.”
But he agreed that Obama is a “decent” man.
“I always thought Obama was an honest man,” Giuliani said.