At that link i just posted, don’t be fooled: That’s not the original article they wrote. Note the update: “03/07/2016 07:22 pm ET | Updated Mar 20, 2016”
One of the things they added was this:
“(The meeting was not planned to be a strategy session on how to stop the GOP front-runner, but rather evolved into one, as a subsequently obtained agenda makes clear.)”
The next day on 3/8, after HuffPo obtained an agenda for the conference, they wrote another article (see link below). The 2nd article sounds more like damage control for the UniParty than anything. (I can just imagine Ryan & McConnell getting on the phone after HuffPo first broke the news, saying, “What in hell are you DOING?! The Trumpetts are gonna catch on to what we’re doing! Do you want Jeb as our nominee or NOT?!”
When the news first came out about this meeting at Sea Island, it made quite a few waves and the attendees started receiving brutal salvos on social media. A link to the conference agenda is in this article, so make your own judgment:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-2016-agenda_us_56df5a2ce4b0b25c917fff29
I remember reading somewhere that the anti-Trump agenda was known in advance by the attendees. Whether or not Cotton was among those who knew, that’s between him and Trump.
If you go look at the agenda, note the last meeting of the weekend. This was probably where a lot of the hard-core planning and scheming went on because it was run by Rove. It’s possible that some attendees left early and didn’t attend this last meeting.
I heard a possibility Rush attended that meeting on Wednesday?
This one has the attendees in bullet form but i think it may be incomplete, not sure. The definitive source is that actual agenda/program.