In an email to Reuters on Wednesday, Powell confirmed the authenticity of the thousands of hacked messages but declined further comment. "When Trump couldn't keep that up," Powell wrote in the hacked message, "he said he also wanted to see if the (birth) certificate noted that he was a Muslim. As for Clinton, Powell said in another email that the Democratic former secretary of state was "greedy" and had "unbridled ambition". Powell wrote to a friend: "There is nothing he can say that will sway black voters so he might as well say it to white folks. In the same message, Powell called Trump's claim that "within four years he would have 95 percent of blacks voting for him a schizo fantasy".

Source: bd News24 September 14, 2016 21:22 UTC