White Plains, New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton declined to discuss Colin Powell's hacked emails during an interview on Thursday, instead joking that she has already talked enough about her own emails.
In hacked emails, Powell wrote: "Everything (Hillary Clinton) touches she kind of screws up with hubris," blunt comments that the the Bush administration secretary of state did not intend to go public.
Trump, meanwhile, took to Twitter Wednesday night to disparage Powell, seemingly in response to harsh words from the former Bush administration official.
"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!," Trump said. Powell had written in June: "Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah." Clinton has had to repeatedly answer questions about her exclusive use of a private email server as secretary of state. At times, Clinton has indicated that Powell advised her to use private email instead of the State Department system. "I have told Hilleary's minions repeatedly that they are making a mistake trying to drag me in, yet they still try," Powell wrote in another email. Powell's emails were posted to DCleaks, a website known to share hacked documents associated with high-profile figures, and first reported by BuzzFeed and The Intercept. An aide to Powell confirmed the accuracy of the emails to CNN but offered no further
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