Carly Fiorina told Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon about the time she met Russian President Vladmir Putin at an economic conference in Beijing. Of course, the GOP presidential candidate couldn’t pass up the opportunity to take another swipe at fellow candidate Donald Trump.
When Fallon brought up Trump’s recent comments about Putin wanting to travel to the United States to meet the New York real estate mogul, Fiorina immediately took the bait: “The two of them have a lot in common, actually. But we’ll just leave it at that.”
She then proceeded to review the talk show host’s Putin impersonation, before telling the audience about the time she met him at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in China. Both the then-Hewlett-Packard CEO and Putin were delivering speeches at the annual gathering.
“I would describe him as a formidable adversary. He’s very confident. He can actually be quite funny and charming,” said Fiorina of Putin. “But he’s a KGB guy, and we should never forget this. He lusts for power and he’s gathered up a lot of it.”
Check out the clip below, via NBC:
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