As her poll numbers move upward, icy cold job destroyer Carly "Snarly" Fiorina sees her opening to become the Rethuglican frontrunner, and she'll do anything to get there, including engaging in outrageous demagoguery that makes narcissist Donald "Rump" Trump look rational. Snarly has made several network appearances where her demonstrably false accusations against Planned Parenthood have been questioned, yet she defiantly pushes back. Her bogus "secretary to CEO" and "modest middle class upbringing" biography has been exposed, yet remains a staple of her stump speech. Some of the people that know her personal side describe her as "calculating" and "manipulative."
However, now that she's gaining steam, she's also gaining some limited scrutiny (although most of the broken political media seem smitten with her). While she was CEO of HP, her company arranged an illegal sale of printers to Iran, violating the U.S. trade embargo. Snarly claims she had no knowledge of the sale and, when pressed, Snarly has stated that the Securities and Exchange Commission "cleared" her after an investigation -- an "investigation" which never occurred. In other words, she lied.
Snarly also understands that the rabid Rethug base likes a belligerent, jingoistic leader (thus their love/hate feelings toward Putin), so Snarly's not beneath making up stuff to bolster her tough image. Her spouting of military nonsense in the second debate (build up the Sixth Fleet, add umpty ump battalions here and there, etc.) was meant to convey some serious national security cred. Now, she's telling a tall tale about an encounter with Putin when she was HP's CEO, which turned out to be an apparently polite conversation in a green room before a speech in which she complimented Putin. In other words, she lied.
There's a voracious monster inside of Snarly that will do and say positively anything to get to the next rung on the ladder. Better we learn more about it now than later.
