Fiorina reinvents another story

Tim Mak, Daily Beast - When presidential candidate Carly Fiorina warns about Vladimir Putin’s charm, and wit, she’s speaking from experience. In the early days of the Russian leader’s presidency, Fiorina hailed him as an agent of positive change after meeting with him briefly at a conference of global business leaders—a far departure from the tough-on-Putin image she has presented on the campaign trail....

Fiorina met Putin for 45 minutes in a green-room type setting, during the 2001 APEC CEO Summit in Beijing, where they were both scheduled to deliver speeches... “I keep wondering how it is that I got positioned to speak in the slot before the President of the Russian Federation—on the subject of change, no less,” Fiorina told the crowd. “Hewlett-Packard has been at the center of a lot of change in our 62-year history. But President Putin was elected president in the first democratic transition in Russia in 1,000 years.”