On Monday, the family of General Colin Powell, the first black Secretary of State who served under three Republican presidents before endorsing former President Barack Obama twice, announced the 84-year-old former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had died “due to complications from Covid 19.”
The Powell family <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Colin%20Powell">stated</a> on Facebook, “General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19. He was fully vaccinated. We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather, and a great American.”
According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/colin-powell-dies-10-18-21/index.html">CNN</a>, which spoke to a source familiar with the matter, Powell had <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/multiple-myeloma/symptoms-causes/syc-20353378#:~:text=Multiple%20myeloma%20is%20a%20cancer,crowd%20out%20healthy%20blood%20cells.">multiple myeloma</a>, a condition that suppresses the immune response.
Powell was born in Harlem in 1937, the son of Jamaican immigrants. He served in Vietnam as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Army between 1962 and 1963, returning in 1968 as assistant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_staff_(military)">chief of staff</a> of operations for the 23rd Infantry Division. He later became senior military assistant to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger during the Reagan Administration. In 1987, he served as United States Deputy National Security Advisor, then Reagan’s last National Security Advisor.
He was promoted to four-star general Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He believed that if the nation were going to war, it should use overwhelming force in order to minimize casualties, which was dubbed the “Powell Doctrine.” He declared himself a Republican in the mid-1990’s and later was selected by former President George W. Bush as Secretary of State.
Powell was urged by the Bush White House to help convince other nations to join in the invasion of Iraq, which he did successfully, but later regretted it, resigning soon after Bush’s reelection in 2004. Yet in 2008 he told CNN, &#8220;My role has been very, very straightforward. I wanted to avoid a war. The president [Bush] agreed with me. We tried to do that. We couldn&#8217;t get it through the U.N. and when the president made the decision, I supported that decision. And I&#8217;ve never blinked from that. I&#8217;ve never said I didn&#8217;t support a decision to go to war.&#8221;
Although Powell donated to the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain in 2008, eh endorsed Barack Obama, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27265369">saying</a> he did not believe that Sarah Palin was “ready to be president of the United States,” but Joe Biden “is ready to be president on day one.”
After Powell endorsed Obama, the National Review Editorial Board <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/10/case-colin-powell-editors/">wrote</a> of Powell’s comments about Palin, “That is a reasonable point of view. But is it really a very strong reason to prefer Obama to McCain? There are, after all, readiness questions about Obama as well, questions that Powell answers merely by invoking Obama’s ‘intellectual vigor’: an element of readiness rather than the thing itself.”
In September 2010, Powell <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2010/09/powell-critical-of-obama-042381#ixzz102EHxkFx">stated</a> on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “The president also has to &#8230; shift the way in which he has been doing things. The American people feel that too many programs have come down. There are so many rocks in our knapsack now that we’re having trouble carrying it. … He has lost some of the ability to connect that he had during the campaign. And it is not just me picking on the president. It’s reflected in the polling. Some of the anxiety and anger that you see out there, I think, comes from a belief on the part of the American people — whether it’s correct or incorrect, and the White House would say it’s incorrect — that &#8230; his singular focus should be on employment.”
A previous version of this article incorrectly cited Powell talking about the president on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; in 2020. That discussion occurred in 2010.

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Despite the fact the he hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 2004, retired General Colin Powell, who served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, made headlines in the mainstream media when he stated on <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/07/sotu.01.html">CNN’s “State of the Union”</a> Sunday that he would vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, in November.
Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton quickly fired back, stating, “I respect Colin Powell’s service and he’s entitled to his opinion, like every other American. But he hasn’t voted Republican for sixteen years. Apparently John McCain and Mitt Romney were ‘too extreme’ for Secretary Powell.”
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I respect Colin Powell’s service and he’s entitled to his opinion, like every other American. But he hasn’t voted Republican for sixteen years. Apparently John McCain and Mitt Romney were “too extreme” for Secretary Powell. <a href="https://t.co/hf2Q14pwqN">https://t.co/hf2Q14pwqN</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1269648154728828931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ironically, as Cotton has been pilloried for suggesting in a New York Times op-ed that President Trump use military force as a backup if police are overwhelmed to stop rioters, not peaceful protesters, there was this exchange between Powell and Tapper:
<blockquote>Tapper: During the Rodney King riots in 1992, you counseled then President George H.W. Bush on a speech he was about to give. You wrote about this very movingly in your book.
You wrote — quote — &#8220;I read it with dismay.&#8221; This is the first copy of the speech. &#8220;I thought the tone was all wrong. Yes, the rioting was criminal, and law and order had to be restored, but the violence had not incubated in isolation. It had deep social roots. The speech, as it stood, recognized only the former and ignored the latter.&#8221;
&#8220;Do the law and order bit,&#8221; you said, &#8220;but there is language here that is only going to fan the flames. Turn down the heat, I suggested. Get some reconciliation into the president&#8217;s message.&#8221; And President George H.W. Bush did take your advice back in 1992. He talked about how he was disappointed that the cops who beat Rodney King had been acquitted, and on and on.
President Trump has been emphasizing law and order. Do you think that he is talking enough about reconciliation and empathy and what the people in the streets are calling for in his message in any way?
Powell: No, he&#8217;s not in any way that I recognize. He always is shooting toward his base. I remember the Bush conversation very, very vividly, because, at the same time, we had to bring law and order back into the streets. And we worked with the state of California, where it happened in Los Angeles, the riots.
And the president called me and said: &#8220;We may have to do something.&#8221;
I said: &#8220;Mr. President, go to the governor. The governor has the National Guard. And if the National Guard can&#8217;t do it, then you come back to me with a decision, and we will send in federal troops.&#8221;</blockquote>
During the Tapper interview, Powell ripped Trump, saying: &#8220;And the one word I have to use with respect to what he&#8217;s been doing for the last several years is a word I would never have used before, I never would have used with any of the four presidents I have worked for: He lies. He lies about things. And he gets away with it, because people will not hold him accountable.&#8221;
“Why is it so important to you that President Trump not be reelected?” Tapper asked.
Powell responded, “Because I think he has been not an effective president. He lies all the time. He began lying the day of inauguration, when we got into an argument about the size of the crowd that was there. People are writing books about his favorite thing of lying. And I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s in our interest. I didn&#8217;t vote for him in 2006 (sic). The situation for 2020, in my mind, in my life, has gotten worse.”
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who served in the administration of George W. Bush, said Sunday he won&#8217;t be voting for fellow Republican President Trump in November’s general election.
“I certainly cannot, in any way, support President Trump this year,” Powell said Sunday on <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/politics/colin-powell-donald-trump-protests-cnntv/index.html">CNN</a>’s “State of the Union.” “We have a Constitution, and we have to follow that Constitution, and the president has drifted away from it.”
Powell, who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, said protests in dozens of cities after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer show Americans are getting frustrated.
&#8220;I think what we&#8217;re seeing now, this massive protest movement I have ever seen in my life, I think it suggests the country is getting wise to this and we&#8217;re not going to put up with it anymore,&#8221; the retired general and former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
&#8220;What we have to do now is reach out to the whole people, watch these demonstrations, watch these protests, and rather than curse them, embrace them to see what it is we have to do to get out of the situation that we find ourselves in now,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re America, we&#8217;re Americans, we can do this. We have the ability to do it, and we ought to do it. Make America not just great, but strong and great for all Americans, not just a couple.&#8221;
Powell instead said he&#8217;ll be voting for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. &#8220;I&#8217;m very close to Joe Biden in a social matter and in a political matter,&#8221; Powell said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve worked with him for 35, 40 years. And he is now the candidate and I will be voting for him.&#8221;
The general joins other high-profile Republicans who vow they won&#8217;t vote for Trump this November.
&#8220;Former President George W. Bush won’t support the reelection of Trump, and Jeb Bush isn’t sure how he’ll vote, say people familiar with their thinking,&#8221; The <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/vote-for-trump-these-republican-leaders-arent-on-the-bandwagon/ar-BB158wRf">New York Times</a> reported on Saturday. &#8220;Senator Mitt Romney of Utah won’t back Trump and is deliberating whether to again write in his wife, Ann, or cast another ballot this November. And Cindy McCain, the widow of Senator John McCain, is almost certain to support Biden but is unsure how public to be about it because one of her sons is eyeing a run for office.&#8221;
Trump slapped back at Powell after his CNN appearance.
&#8220;Colin Powell, a real stiff who was very responsible for getting us into the disastrous Middle East Wars, just announced he will be voting for another stiff, Sleepy Joe Biden. Didn’t Powell say that Iraq had &#8216;weapons of mass destruction?&#8217; They didn’t, but off we went to WAR!&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Colin Powell, a real stiff who was very responsible for getting us into the disastrous Middle East Wars, just announced he will be voting for another stiff, Sleepy Joe Biden. Didn’t Powell say that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction?” They didn’t, but off we went to WAR!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1269634983687315457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Just as Trump supporters were ready to label Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) as the biggest appeaser of Democrats in the United States, two-time Barack Obama endorser and former Secretary of State Colin Powell emerged from the shadows to say the GOP needs to &#8220;get a grip on itself&#8221; as they defend Trump from impeachment.
Speaking to a crowd at The Jefferson Series, Powell said that Republicans need to find the courage to speak out against wrongdoing when it presents itself.
&#8220;The Republican party has got to get a grip on itself,&#8221; Powell said, as <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/464565-powell-the-republican-party-has-got-to-get-a-grip-on-itself">reported by The Hill</a>. &#8220;Republican leaders and members of the Congress, both Senate and the House, are holding back because they&#8217;re terrified of what will happen to any one of them if they speak out.&#8221;
Powell went on to say that America&#8217;s foreign policy is &#8220;in shambles right now&#8221; under President Trump, creating an environment he cannot understand, citing instances like &#8220;sharpiegate&#8221; as examples of where America is headed.
&#8220;I see things happening that are hard to understand,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is not the way the country is supposed to run. And Congress is one of the institutions that should be doing something about this. We&#8217;ve got to remember what the Constitution started with: &#8216;we the People,&#8217; not &#8216;me the President.'&#8221;
Keep in mind, Colin Powell said this about President Trump after endorsing Barack Obama twice, despite his failure with the &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; and the toppling of Libya, which led to the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Though Powell has often stayed out of the spotlight during the Trump presidency, he emerges every now and then to give some dire warning about how troubling the country has become under the leadership of the Republican president. Last year, Powell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/go-away-colin-powell-trump-should-really-stop-paul-bois">declared that Trump</a> is making the world a worse place by &#8220;insulting people.&#8221;
&#8220;I hope the president can come to the realization that he should really stop insulting people,&#8221; Powell told Fareed Zakaria. &#8220;I used this two years ago when I said I could not vote for him in the 2016 election. Why? He insulted everybody. He insulted African-Americans. He insulted women. He insulted immigrants. He insulted our best friends around the world. All of his fellow candidates up on the stage during the debates. He continued, &#8220;I don’t think that’s what should be coming out of a president of the United States. But I don’t see anything that’s changed in the last two years.&#8221;
&#8220;The world is watching,&#8221; Powell concluded. &#8220;They cannot believe we’re doing things like separating mothers and children who are trying to get across the border from south of our border. They can’t believe we’re making such an effort to cease immigration coming into the country. It’s what’s kept us alive!&#8221;
Much of Powell&#8217;s rhetoric about President Trump echoes that of former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who warned his former colleagues in the GOP that they are at risk of losing their soul if they continue supporting Trump.
&#8220;Trust me when I say that you can go elsewhere for a job. But you cannot go elsewhere for a soul,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeff-flakes-message-to-republicans-theres-still-time-to-save-your-souls">Flake said in a recent op-ed</a> for The Washington Post.

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sV-bNLGIkA">Gary Sinise</a> is an award-winning actor who has appeared in multiple television shows and films, including &#8220;CSI: New York,&#8221; &#8220;Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders,&#8221; &#8220;Forrest Gump,&#8221; &#8220;Apollo 13,&#8221; &#8220;The Green Mile,&#8221; and &#8220;Of Mice And Men.&#8221; He has also made a name for himself as an advocate for veterans of the American Armed Forces. In his bestselling memoir, &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Grateful-American-Journey-Self-Service/dp/1400208122/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1550938218&amp;sr=8-1-spons&amp;keywords=grateful+american+by+gary+sinise&amp;psc=1">Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service</a>,&#8221; Sinise documents how a Chicago native turned Hollywood celebrity began to serve America&#8217;s heroes. 
Sinise begins his story in Chicago where his father worked as a film editor. He describes his troubled school years prior to being offered a role as an actor in a local stage production. From there, a love of acting (and later directing) was born. He and some friends started the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, which featured other future Hollywood stars like John Malkovich. 
After a career on stage, Sinise describes his move to Los Angeles and getting his big break, directing &#8220;Miles from Home&#8221; and later &#8220;Of Mice and Men,&#8221; in which he also starred.
As his film and stage career continued to gain him notoriety, Sinise describes meeting veterans who had returned home from the Vietnam War and seeing the negative reaction they received from the American public. This set Sinise on a path of USO tours, movies about veterans, and later, launching the Gary Sinise Foundation, which serves the men and women of the Armed Services along with their families. 
With his selfless attitude and desire to help, Sinise has aided thousands of active duty soldiers and veterans through his foundation. 
&#8220;Grateful American&#8221; is not the usual celebrity &#8220;tell-all&#8221; with salacious gossip and rumors galore. Instead, Sinise offers the readers an intimate look into his early life, his career, and his work for the Armed Forces. It&#8217;s a truly noteworthy memoir that sheds light on the entertainment industry and what it&#8217;s like to lead the life of a celebrity. 
One of the most interesting segments of the book deals with his early days with Steppenwolf Theater Company. The successes and failures of a fledgling team of actors, directors, and producers as they go from one production to the other are truly illuminating.
Another interesting portion focuses on his advocacy for the Armed Forces. It moved my heart to read about how Sinise grew to love soldiers and wanted to help them and their families. It&#8217;s fascinating to hear how he put that compassion into such roles as Lt. Dan in &#8220;Forrest Gump&#8221; and in performing &#8220;The Tracers,&#8221; a stage play about veterans written by veterans. 
You feel for him at his low points, you cheer for him during his highs, and you learn how one person can make a difference for his family, friends, and his country. 
Gary Sinise was recently honored in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43450/watch-hollywood-first-responders-service-members-kassy-dillon">video</a> where the participants thanked him for the work he and his foundation do. The video featured appearances by several of his fellow celebrities including Jay Leno, Robert De Niro, Patricia Heaton, Tim Allen, Ron Howard, Mayim Chaya Bialik, Rob Lowe, former co-star Tom Hanks, as well as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, several first responders, and military personnel.

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Colin Powell, the former Republican Secretary of State who endorsed Barack Obama twice and accused conservatives of having a &#8220;<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/03/08/colin_powell_i_still_see_the_dark_vein_of_racism_in_repubicans__america.html">dark vein</a>&#8221; of racism inside them, is now advising President Trump to <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/colin-powell-scorches-donald-trump_us_5bbad097e4b01470d0528bf1">stop insulting people </a>because Powell fears Trump will alienate the rest of the world.
Speaking with CNN&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, General Powell said Trump&#8217;s calling the fake news media the &#8220;enemy of the people&#8221; and his walking away from international agreements is making the world a dangerous place.
&#8220;What are we doing? We&#8217;re walking away from agreements, we&#8217;re walking away from alliances,&#8221; Powell said.
As stated before, Powell endorsed Barack Obama twice and Hillary Clinton in 2016, even though ISIS arose under their watch, not to mention that whole Benghazi fiasco.
&#8220;Do you think this president can be a moral leader for the world?&#8221; Zakaria asked Powell.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know that he can do that,&#8221; Powell said. &#8220;Because right now that is not the way he is acting. Recently, it has become &#8216;me the president&#8217; as opposed to &#8216;we the people.'&#8221;
&#8220;And you see things that should not be happening,&#8221; Powell continued. &#8220;How can a president of the United States get up and say that the media is the enemy of Americans? Hasn&#8217;t he read the First Amendment? You are not supposed to like everything the press says, or what anyone says &#8230; that&#8217;s why we have a First Amendment, to protect that kind of speech.&#8221;
Powell hopes that Trump will stop insulting people &#8212; the same people who just spent three weeks trying to destroy an innocent man&#8217;s life &#8212; and accused the president of racism and sexism.
&#8220;I hope the president can come to the realization that he should really stop insulting people,&#8221; Powell said. &#8220;I used this two years ago when I said I could not vote for him in the 2016 election. Why? He insulted everybody. He insulted African-Americans. He insulted women. He insulted immigrants. He insulted our best friends around the world. All of his fellow candidates up on the stage during the debates. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s what should be coming out of a president of the United States. But I don&#8217;t see anything that&#8217;s changed in the last two years.&#8221;
&#8220;The world is watching,&#8221; Powell concluded. &#8220;They cannot believe we&#8217;re doing things like separating mothers and children who are trying to get across the border from south of our border. They can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re making such an effort to cease immigration coming into the country. It&#8217;s what&#8217;s kept us alive!&#8221;
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A Rhode Island town has decided to boycott Nike following the company&#8217;s decision to make NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick the face of their #JustDoIt campaign. 
On Monday, North Smithfield&#8217;s town council passed a resolution with a 3-2 vote on Monday for a non-binding resolution to encourage its departments not to use Nike products, <a href="https://www.wcvb.com/article/rhode-island-town-council-joins-others-boycotting-nike/23297776">according to WCVB.</a>
The town&#8217;s administrator reportedly did not know if specific Nike products were used in the departments.
More than 20 people spoke against the resolution at the meeting, according to <a href="http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180918/north-smithfield-town-council-oks-resolution-seeking-nike-ban--poll">Providence Journal</a>.
&#8220;The resolution is a request &#8212; it is not a demand the town not purchase Nike, or the school department not purchase Nike,&#8221; <a href="http://www.golocalprov.com/news/new-nike-ban-on-agenda-for-north-smithfield-town-council-meeting">said council president</a> and former state trooper, John Beauregard. &#8220;I&#8217;m requesting that they do it &#8212; if they chose to go forward and do it, there won&#8217;t be any repercussions. It&#8217;s simply a request.&#8221;
&#8220;The reason I&#8217;m doing it is the person Nike has to put forward to represent their company has a great deal of disdain for police,&#8221; said Beauregard. &#8220;He&#8217;s worn socks depicting the police as pigs.&#8221; 
&#8220;This is not about anyone taking a knee,&#8221; he added. &#8220;You might be surprised, but I support their right. Just because I do not believe in his cause does not mean I do not believe in his rights,&#8221; he said of Kaepernick.
Beauregard added that he is against Kaepernick&#8217;s &#8220;derogatory comments about police&#8221; and his financial support for &#8220;someone who murdered a police officer,&#8221; in reference to Kaepernick <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/colin-kaepernick-assata-shakur/">donating $25,000 to Assata Shakur</a> &#8212; a woman who was found guilty but fled the country to Cuba after escaping from prison.
The resolution claimed &#8220;102 police officers have been killed in the line of duty so far this year,&#8221; and Beauregard added that a police officer was killed as recently as Sunday night. 
Prior to the meeting, the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island told the council to &#8220;just don&#8217;t do it&#8221; in a letter to the council.
On Twitter, the ACLU of Rhode Island wrote: &#8220;The resolution&#8217;s demagoguery truly is shameful.&#8221;
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You can find our initial letter to the Town Council and a copy of the Council&#8217;s resolution here: <a href="https://t.co/Hm8JbSQoq8">https://t.co/Hm8JbSQoq8</a> The resolution&#8217;s demagoguery truly is shameful. <a href="https://t.co/vpJdJGiZeq">https://t.co/vpJdJGiZeq</a>
&#8212; ACLU of Rhode Island (@RIACLU) <a href="https://twitter.com/RIACLU/status/1042038741198622723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2018</a></blockquote>
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A New Orleans suburb <a href="https://dev.dailywire.com/news/35851/update-after-protests-city-wont-be-banning-nike-james-barrett">tried to ban Nike products</a> from the city&#8217;s recreation department but rescinded its decision after public pressure. A Georgia University <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35798/tiny-georgia-university-sacrifices-20k-banning-hank-berrien">also said it was willing to cut ties with Nike</a> as the brand for its school apparel in the campus bookstore.

Rhode Island Town Votes On Resolution To Boycott Nike

In the new teaser clip for the CNBC car show &#8220;Jay Leno&#8217;s Garage,&#8221; Joe Biden shows up to do something he&#8217;s only done three times in the last seven years: Drive. 
&#8220;Secret service doesn&#8217;t let me [drive],&#8221; he tells host Leno in the video (below), grinning like a school boy at the sight of his original 1967 Corvette Stingray in a gorgeous Goodwood Green with Saddle Leather interior. 
It turns out, vice presidents aren&#8217;t allowed to drive during their time in office, or for the six months following their term. So when ol&#8217; &#8220;Handsy Joe&#8221; got his paws on that wood-grain wheel, he put the peddle to the metal and did a burn out even a Republican could love.

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Because of Biden&#8217;s driving restriction, the two opted to cut loose on the private track used by the Secret Service for training purposes. 
In the clip, Biden tells Leno that while he was growing up, his father ran the largest Chevrolet dealership in the state. So in August 1967, when Biden and his wife were about to get married, his dad told him to bring in their old cars so he could fix them up as a gift. When they showed up to get their cars from the dealership mechanics, what they got instead was a brand new Corvette. And Joe has owned it ever since. 
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He told Leno that at one point his sons had the 327 cubic inch engine rebuilt as a birthday gift, and it still runs like a top.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve always loved to drive,&#8221; said the Vice President. &#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t say it on TV &#8230; I like speed.&#8221;
He confesses to Jay that he &#8220;buried&#8221; the Stingray when he was younger, putting his foot to the floor topping out at 152 mph on the 160 mph speedometer. Leno tells him to go back to the dealership and demand those last 8 miles per hour.
According to the video, in 1967 Biden&#8217;s Vette would&#8217;ve cost 5 grand. Today, one that is original with those specific options would have a price tag around $78,000 dollars. But the fact that it is a one-owner car and that owner happened to be a Vice President means the value would most likely be higher.
At the end of the clip, a 2015 Corvette Stingray pulls up behind them ready for a race. The mystery driver is revealed to be Colin Powell, and we&#8217;re left assume the full episode will have more footage of the two racing their prized sports cars. 
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Biden Does A Burnout In His ’67 Stingray With Jay Leno, Then Races Colin Powell

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is the latest figure in politics to be the victim of an email hack. The emails were given to DC Leaks -&#8211; an organization that is believed to have ties to the Guccifer 2.0 hacker &#8211;- by anonymous hackers. Two years of emails from Powell&#8217;s personal email account that are now on public record and they reveal Powell&#8217;s thoughts on notable figures and issues in this election cycle. 
Here are nine revelations from Powell&#8217;s email hack.
1. Powell does not like Donald Trump. In one email, Powell called Trump &#8220;a national disgrace and an international pariah.&#8221;
Another email featured Powell seething that Trump &#8220;appeals to the worst angels of the GOP nature and poor white folks.&#8221;
Powell did say in one email that he understands that Trump &#8220;has captured the frustration and disappointment of average folks and not just racist nuts. But he is not the solution to their problems and angst. He is a know nothing.&#8221;
Naturally, Trump voiced his displeasure with Powell on Twitter, via <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/14/politics/colin-powell-dcleaks/">CNN</a>:
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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!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/776269061823074304">September 15, 2016</a></blockquote>
2. Powell is still obsessing over the birthers. &#8220;Yup, the whole birther movement was racist,&#8221; Powell <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/colin-powell-calls-trump-national-disgrace-in-personal-email?utm_term=.tu4QwbAdr5#.gud1K5Rvpr">wrote</a> in an August email. &#8220;That&#8217;s what the 99% believe. When Trump couldn&#8217;t keep that up he said he also wanted to see if the certificate noted that he was a Muslim.&#8221;
Powell went onto say that it didn&#8217;t matter if President Barack Obama was born Muslim.
Trump also sent in an email in May where he re-hashed his criticism that &#8220;there is a level of intolerance in parts of the Republican Party.&#8221;
Interestingly, Powell did not mention the fact that the conspiracy theories of Obama being born as a Muslim outside of the U.S. <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/70/hillary-slams-trump-obama-muslim-question-forgets-aaron-bandler">originated with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton&#8217;s 2008 presidential campaign</a>. Has Powell ever said that there was a &#8220;level of intolerance&#8221; in that Clinton campaign?
3. Powell doesn&#8217;t seem to care much for Hillary Clinton, and used rather colorful language to describe her husband. In March 2015, right at the beginning of Clinton&#8217;s email scandal, Powell warned Clinton confidant Cheryl Mills: &#8220;You really don&#8217;t want to get me into this. I haven&#8217;t been asked nor said a word about HRC and won&#8217;t unless you all start it.&#8217;
The Clinton campaign did get Powell involved, claiming that he told Clinton to set up a private server. He was rather <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/9123/leaked-colin-powell-emails-making-things-even-james-barrett">disappointed about it</a>:
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&#8220;Spent last week with Cheryl Mills and the HRC team burying the email flap,&#8221; Powell wrote in an email to one of his confidants in late August. &#8220;Madeleine [Albright] also says she doesn&#8217;t remember the dinner conversation or launching such a conversation. Sad thing it [sic] HRC could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me to it. I told her staff three times not to try that gambit. I had to throw a mini tantrum at a Hampton&#8217;s party to get their attention. She keeps tripping into these &#8216;character&#8217; minefields.&#8221;
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Powell used more crude language in an exchange with business partner Jeffrey Leeds.
&#8220;They are going to dick up the legitimate and necessary use of emails with friggin record rules,&#8221; wrote Powell. &#8220;I saw email more like a telephone than a cable machine, as long as the stuff is unclassified.&#8221;
Powell has admitted to using a personal AOL email address as well as an official computer sanctioned by the State Department, but never set up his own private server of improperly transmitted classified information like Clinton.
Powell later noted that &#8220;everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.&#8221;
He also complained that Clinton&#8217;s absurd charge for speaking fees prevented him from attending at a speaking engagement, lamenting that he &#8220;should send her a bill.&#8221;
The former Secretary of State did write that he &#8220;would rather not vote for&#8221; Clinton because she is &#8220;a 70-year-old person with a long track-record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still d***ing bimbos at home (according to the NYP).&#8221; And yet&#8230;
4. It seems like Powell will endorse Clinton at some point. <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/13/exclusive-colin-powells-personal-email-hacked-under-pressure-to-endorse-hillary-clinton/">The Daily Caller</a> obtained some of the hacked emails and found this exchange between Powell Christie Whitman, the former Republican New Jersey governor who has endorsed Clinton:
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&#8220;Have you endorsed her yet?&#8221; the one line email said.
&#8220;Nope,&#8221; Powell replied. &#8220;By the way, if you have a WSJ today take a look at my piece on immigration. I can send it you missed. On Oped pages.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;ll recall that in 2008 and 2012 I waited until early fall,&#8221; he added.
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The fact that Whitman used the word &#8220;yet&#8221; and Powell&#8217;s response operated under that premise certainly suggests that it&#8217;s only a matter of time before Powell endorses Clinton. Despite the fact that Clinton has thrown him under the bus, ruined a speaking engagement for him, and ignored his advice on handling her email server, he might still endorse her.
5. Powell might deliver a &#8220;knock out blow&#8221; against Trump. The Daily Caller also found this rather cryptic exchange:
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On August 2, longtime Powell friend and adviser Harlan Ullman asked Powell, &#8220;when are you going to throw the knock out blow?&#8221;
&#8220;I try not to bother someone who is beating himself and the GOP up. And please, don&#8217;t start bugging me like every newsie and getter in town,&#8221; Powell replied. &#8220;If and when I do it will be known.&#8221;
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Powell&#8217;s response has to be referencing Trump, and even though Powell is a registered Republican he has no problem with Trump beating &#8220;the GOP up.&#8221; If Clinton&#8217;s slide in the polls continues, the public may find out what that &#8220;knock out blow&#8221; is soon enough.
6. Powell doesn&#8217;t seem to think too highly of a couple of his former colleagues in the Bush administration. Powell and his successor, Condoleeza Rice discussed a piece written by veteran journalist Bob Woodward that criticized comments made by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the Iraq war, bemoaning Rumsfeld and other members of the administration for the Iraq War fallout. Via <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/14/politics/colin-powell-dcleaks/">CNN</a>:
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Rice praised Woodward and added: &#8220;First, we didn&#8217;t invade Iraq to bring democracy &#8212; but once we overthrew Saddam (Hussein), we had a view of what should follow. If Don and the Pentagon had done their job &#8230; things might have turned out differently.&#8221;
Powell criticized &#8220;Doug and Paul,&#8221; presumably Douglas J. Feith and Paul Wolfowitz, for their plan on Iraq and praised his former boss, President George W. Bush.
&#8220;43 (Bush, the 43rd president) knew what had to be done,&#8221; Powell wrote to Rice. &#8220;As you say, the boys in the band were brain dead.&#8221;
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Powell really does not like Wolfowitz, calling him a &#8220;a f***ing liar&#8221; when Wolfowitz laid some blame at the feet of Powell &#8220;for what many experts allege were the United States&#8217; two largest post-invasion blunders: the disbanding of the Iraqi army and the decision to expel members of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Baathist Party from the civilian government,&#8221; according to <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-emails-clinton-trump-rumsfeld-228158">Politico</a>.
Powell also admitted he &#8220;gagged&#8221; when former President George H.W. Bush lavished praised onto Rumsfeld at an event.
In a separate email, Powell tore into former vice president Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney when they were promoting their new book in 2015.
&#8220;They are idiots and spent force peddling a book that ain&#8217;t going nowhere,&#8221; Powell <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/09/14/top-insults-colin-powell-hacked-emails/90378154/">wrote</a>.
7. Powell actually blamed former Ambassador Chris Stevens for his death at Benghazi. According to Politico:
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In her email to Powell, Condoleezza Rice wrote that &#8220;intel agencies know how to cover themselves and hang policy types (even POTUS) out to dry.&#8221;
Powell replied that the Benghazi investigation was &#8220;a stupid witch hunt&#8221; and said the &#8220;basic fault&#8221; for the attack &#8220;falls on a courageous ambassador who thought Libyans now love me and I am ok in this very vulnerable place.&#8221; He was apparently referring to Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in the assault.
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Powell did later lay some blame onto Clinton, but the fact that he views the Benghazi investigation as &#8220;a stupid witch hunt&#8221; shows how little he thinks of it. And the fact that he places the &#8220;basic fault&#8221; on Stevens is reprehensible.
8. Powell&#8217;s emails confirm that Obama and Hillary Clinton don&#8217;t like each other. Leeds <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/14/hillary-clinton-calls-obama-that-man-dc-leaks-emai/">wrote</a> to Powell in March 2015 &#8220;that other State people were on the Clinton email so none of their emails were captured by the government. I think Hillary can&#8217;t believe she might not make it. It&#8217;s the one prize she wants. She has everything and she HATES that the president (&#8216;that man&#8217; as the Clintons call him) kicked her ass in 2008.&#8221;
9. Powell also made a sexist remark about Fox News host Megyn Kelly. According to <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/09/14/top-insults-colin-powell-hacked-emails/90378154/">USA Today</a>:
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 He also said former FOX News CEO Roger Ailesended his brief feud with Trump because of the high ratings Trump brought. So, Ailes sent &#8220;Megyn Kelly off to get over her period,&#8221; Powell wrote.
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9 Revelations From Colin Powell’s Email Hack

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An email from a prominent Hillary Clinton donor written in 2015 to former Secretary of State Colin Powell <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/democratic-senator-told-donor-that-hillary-could-barely-climb-the-podium-steps/">claims</a> that Democratic Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said Clinton could &#8220;barely climb the podium steps.&#8221;
Jeffrey Leeds&#8217; email, revealed after Powell&#8217;s email account had been hacked, stated, &#8220;Sheldon Whitehouse, who is a huge Clinton supporter, said they were both giving speeches at the same event a few months back and she could barely climb the podium steps.&#8221;
Powell responded:
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On HD tv she doesn&#8217;t look good. She is working herself to death. After speaking at the UN and doing the crummy press conference she flew to SF to go to a paid gig for EBay and then went to Marc&#8217;s house to get ready for a money dinner for the Clinton Foundation. I was in Marc&#8217;s second house and ducked her so we didn&#8217;t turn loose another email story by being seen together. She then flew back east the next morning. She will turn 70 her first year in office.
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Clinton&#8217;s health has been the subject of much speculation, especially since her fainting episode last Sunday. She has fainted before, notably in 2005, during a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/31/clinton/">luncheon speech</a> in upstate New York at the Saturn Club in Buffalo.
Dr. Stephanie Pincus, a leading doctor in New York, was present at the time and examined her, stating, &#8220;She has had a GI virus &#8212; an acute gastrointestinal illness &#8212; and she has been sick for at least a day and she needed some fluids; she needed to sit down and relax. She had clearly consulted with physicians beforehand. She came in, she said she wasn&#8217;t feeling well. She felt hot. She had stepped out to remove some of her heavier clothing, and it was just too much for her to continue.&#8221;
In 2012, Clinton <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1cJl_NK1p4">fainted</a> during a speech and suffered a concussion and a subsequent blood clot.

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A <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/9123/leaked-colin-powell-emails-making-things-even-james-barrett">recent email hacking</a> of former Secretary of State Colin Powell has added another heaping helping of awful news for the already-scandal-ridden Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
One such email correspondence between Powell and Jeffrey Leeds, a big Democratic donor, discussed Powell&#8217;s reluctance to vote for Hillary, &#8220;although she is a friend.&#8221; Powell called Hillary &#8220;greedy&#8221; and spoke of her &#8220;unbridled ambition.&#8221; But much more interestingly, Powell said that Bill Clinton is &#8220;still d*cking bimbos at home&#8221;&#8212;aligning with suspicions everyone already holds of the former president.
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In which Colin Powell says Bill Clinton is &#8220;still dicking bimbos at home&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/aOQlHILGEe">pic.twitter.com/aOQlHILGEe</a>
&#8212; Gabby Morrongiello (@gabriellahope_) <a href="https://twitter.com/gabriellahope_/status/776101047118987264">September 14, 2016</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still d*cking bimbos at home,&#8221; wrote Powell, on July 26, 2014.
The former president has been accused of sexual misconduct&#8212;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/8484/broaddrick-hillary-knew-i-was-raped-pressured-me-amanda-prestigiacomo">including rape</a>&#8212;by <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/1344/how-many-women-has-bill-clinton-sexually-abused-amanda-prestigiacomo">at least 14 different women</a>. Of course, Mr. Clinton <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo6bDvDHsuc">eventually came clean</a> about having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky while serving in the Oval Office (literally) in 1998, while he was still married to his ambitious wife Hillary.
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In the email dump, it also became evident that Powell urged the Hillary camp <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/13/colin-powell-emails/">not to scapegoat</a> him for her egregious email scandal.
&#8220;She was using email when she took over,&#8221; Powell wrote in another email, in late August. &#8220;They put the personal system in the basement a few months later. That dinner was June 16th. She didn&#8217;t need any advice of ok from me; she was already doing it. I gave her written guidance on why and how I had been doing it. 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.&#8221;
Hillary&#8217;s no good, very bad month just keeps getting worse.

Email Leak: Colin Powell Says Bill Clinton ‘Still D***ing Bimbos At Home’

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Hillary Clinton&#8217;s very, very, very bad month has just gotten even worse. After having repeatedly attempted to drag former Secretary of State Colin Powell into her bottomless email scandal pit, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/13/colin-powell-emails/">newly leaked emails</a> from Powell&#8217;s Gmail account provide even more fodder for Clinton critics.
The emails, leaked by DCLeaks (which has been <a href="http://www.threatconnect.com/blog/does-a-bear-leak-in-the-woods/">associated with Guccifer 2.0</a>) on Tuesday, feature some brutal and politically damning statements from the former secretary of state about the embattled Democratic presidential candidate and her &#8220;gambit&#8221; to use him as political cover for her own &#8220;dumb&#8221; moves. &#8220;Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris,&#8221; <a href="http://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2016/09/cp1.png">wrote</a> Powell in one email.
&#8220;Spent last week with Cheryl Mills and the HRC team burying the email flap,&#8221; Powell <a href="https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-7.18.37-PM.png">wrote</a> in an email to one of his confidants in late August. &#8220;Madeleine [Albright] also says she doesn&#8217;t remember the dinner conversation or launching such a conversation. Sad thing it [sic] HRC could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me to it. I told her staff three times not to try that gambit. I had to throw a mini tantrum at a Hampton&#8217;s party to get their attention. She keeps tripping into these &#8216;character&#8217; minefields.&#8221;
&#8220;Dumb. She should have done a &#8216;Full Monty&#8217; at the beginning,&#8221; Powell <a href="https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-7.27.20-PM.png">wrote</a> in an email a few days earlier. &#8220;She was using email when she took over. They put the personal system in the basement a few months later. That dinner was June 16th. She didn&#8217;t need any advice of ok from me; she was already doing it. I gave her written guidance on why and how I had been doing it. 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.&#8221;
The leaked emails show Powell corresponding with dozens of reporters explaining how he used a private email address during his time as secretary of state, particularly the ways in which his use was different than Sec. Clinton&#8217;s. Most importantly, he did not set up his own private server and he was careful not to use his private account for any official business. Powell repeatedly pointed the media to his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Worked-Me-Life-Leadership/dp/0062135139">It Worked For Me</a>, which contains a chapter explaining in detail the ways he helped update the State Department&#8217;s antiquated IT system. 
In his correspondence, he often expresses his deep frustration with Clinton&#8217;s attempts to tie him to her own crucial mistakes. 
&#8220;A newsie asked today to interview me on my use [of private email],&#8221; <a href="https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2016/09/cp1.png">wrote</a> Powell in an email to a business partner in August 2015. &#8220;Told them to read my book, Chapter on &#8216;Brainware.&#8217; They are going to dick up the legitimate and necessary use of emails with friggin record rules. I saw email more like a telephone than a cable machine. As long as the stuff is unclassified. I had a secure State.gov machine. 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&#8217;t any fees for awhile. I should send her a bill.&#8221;
Powell goes on in the email to lament that Donald Trump will be able to use the email scandal to his advantage and suggested he&#8217;s benefiting by the &#8220;celebrification of our society.&#8221;
Powell&#8217;s leaked emails are just more bad headlines in a month full of them, right at the time Clinton can least afford it. Following a series of politically damaging weeks, she currently finds herself in a <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/5361/can-trump-beat-hillary-here-are-latest-polls-james-barrett">near dead heat with Trump</a>. Should the trend lines continue, Clinton might find herself on the wrong side of one of the biggest upset defeats ever.

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