March 09, 2016 04:05 PM UTC

Gardner denies plotting to stop Trump at secretive meeting

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• by: Jason Salzman

(The plot thickens – Promoted by Colorado Pols)

In a radio interview this morning, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner denied that he traveled to a meeting at a swanky Georgia resort over the weekend in a last ditch effort to stop Donald Trump from becoming the GOP presidential nominee.

“These conspiracy theories about what took place there are way over the top, spurred by a Huffington Post liberal outlet that thinks people are going to be gullible enough to believe it was something that clearly it wasn’t,” said Gardner of the meeting, hosted by the American Enterprise Institute.

The discussion about Trump, according to the Huffington Post, dominated the conference–about his rise but also how to stop him.

“It’s pretty crazy what people are saying,” said Gardner, after criticizing the Huffington Post.

Gardner described the event as an annual meeting, and he said he was on panels addressing China and the freshman class in the U.S. Senate.

“To think that anything else was discussed by me is absolutely untrue,” Gardner said on KNUS 710-AM’s Kelley & Kafer Show March 9, referring to the Trump discussion. (at 4 min below)

“That’s unfortunately, probably the best way to describe it, as a wonky, nerd forum,” said Gardner. “I know they’ve talked about the tech CEOs. And yes, Tim Cook was there talking about the encryption issue in front of Congress right now, and the very real challenge of balancing privacy with security. And again, this is an annual conference that’s been going on since 1982. To think that there was some other purpose for it is simply not true and a flat-out lie.”