More revelations from the Colin Powell emails, likely hacked by the boys in Moscow. While the media is playing up the "Powell hates Trump" angle for obvious reasons of bias, the most interesting nugget in the emails actually comes not from Powell, but a top Dem donor he was corresponding with.
Even more timely are the references Powell makes to Clinton's health in a series of emails with Jeffrey Leeds, who heads the Leeds Equity Partners investment firm and is also a top Democratic party donor. Powell is a member of the Leeds Partners advisory board. In one email to Leeds, Powell writes that Clinton "does not look good" and is "working herself to death." Leeds also weighs in on the Clinton email scandal and added that "nobody likes her."
In several emails from Leeds to Powell, Leeds says that Clinton hates and envies the president in the extreme. Leeds adds that she will sometimes refer to President Obama as "that man." Finally, Leeds tells Powell that the Obama team wouldn't mind seeing Clinton lose.
That's not altogether surprising, but we haven't seen it from a credible source before.
'It's the one prize she wants. She has everything else. And she HATES the President ('that man' as the Clintons call him) kicked her a** in 2008. She can't believe it or accept it.'
In another March 2015 email exchange between the two the men talk about Clinton's health, with Leeds stating that Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse informed him that 'she could barely climb the podium steps' when the two gave a speech at the same event a few months prior.
Colin Powell, for his part, is not a fan of Hillary either. He was dragging out his endorsement of her despite prompting from Christine Whitman. And he resented her bizarre attempt to use him to defend her rogue email operation.