Colin Powell: Trump is a “national disgrace” and “international pariah”

Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell feels that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is a “national disgrace” and an “international pariah,” according to several of his personal emails that were hacked into by cyberpirates and then posted online.

Powell, a retired Army general, confirmed Wednesday to NBC that the emails are accurate and added that the hackers obtained “many more” of his personal enotes than they have released so far.

In one of those emails, sent to a former adviser and dated June 17, Powell calls Trump a “national disgrace” and an “international pariah,” and notes that the mogul is “in the process of destroying himself” and does not need the Democrats’ help in doing so.

In another email, the former secretary of state calls Trump’s theory that President Barack Obama was not really born in this country “racist.”

The content of Powell’s emails, leaked by a group calling itself DCLeaks, was published first on the conservative news Web site BuzzFeed.

Powell was secretary of state under Republican President George W. Bush between 20012005, but in 2008 and 2012 he supported Obama’s candidacy for the White House.

During the current campaign, he has published oped pieces against the antiimmigrant policies proposed by Trump, saying that the United States is a country created by immigrants.

But despite his lambasting of Trump, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton does not come out particularly well in the leaked emails either.

The retired general criticizes Clinton and her campaign for involving him in the controversy over her private email server that she used to manage official business when she served as secretary of state.

Clinton “could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me into it. I told her staff three times not to try that gambit,” Powell commented in one of the emails.