Republican presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina told CNN in 2013 that the Clinton Foundation was overall "a positive thing" for Hillary Clinton if she decided to run for president.
Fiorina made the comments in response to a question from Jake Tapper about reports from the New York Times and Politico on the Clinton Foundation that raised several questions about the foundation's management and possible conflicts of interest among the Clintons, their associates, and foundation donors.
"Sure there are, but I think on balance it's a positive thing, actually," Fiorina said when asked if the foundation would pose a problem for Clinton during a presidential run.
"It's certainly been a positive thing for President Clinton. Obviously, there are some management issues there that will have to be dealt with. But the Clinton Global Initiative does a lot of good work around the world." Fiorina added.
Fiorina said that the foundation's "vulnerabilities" were in it's corporate partnerships.
"I do think the vulnerabilities will be with the corporate partnerships, sadly. Corporations are doing great work with CGI, but I think she may be asked about some of those relationships as she goes forward," Fiorina said.
Fiorina, who in the past appeared on Clinton Foundation panels, has been a critic of the Clinton Foundation throughout 2015.
"And in the meantime, please explain why we should accept that the millions and millions of dollars that have flowed into the Clinton Global Initiative from foreign governments do not represent a conflict of interest," Fiorina said in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
When asked about the comments on CNN, a spokesperson for Fiorina said, "We now know that Mrs. Clinton made a whole series of decisions that favored donors to her family's foundation when she was secretary of state, including millions in previously undisclosed payments, and that her husband was seeking permission to make paid speeches in some of the most brutal dictatorships on the planet."