Who didn't attend...
Well, now, that is a detail which the Americans who were there seemed unwilling to accurately state when they were first asked. Now why would that be?
Tell me the details on any conversations you had with anyone else on June 9th 2016 for 1/2 an hour... or you must be guilty.
I seem to recall Loretta Lynch not being able to recall her conversation on a tarmac with Bill Clinton a day after it happened, interesting how politics effects a drama llama, don't you think?
Tell me the details on any conversations you had with anyone else on June 9th 2016 for 1/2 an hour... or you must be guilty.
I don't know about the meetings you attend, but every meeting I attend with colleagues or clients is documented with minutes and the minutes identify all attendees in the meeting. Why do we do that, so that we don't have to remember details like who was there. That said, if asked who attended, all I need to do is say "let me check and get back to you," whereupon I'd look at the minutes and in turn provide the requested information.
You can equivocate on the word "meeting" if you want to, but you should know better than that. You know damn well that serendipitously having met with a friend and attending a scheduled meeting are not the same things. A scheduled meeting, which is what Trump, Jr.
et al had, is different from a casual conversation I may have with a friend, close acquaintance or colleague with whom I find myself roughly collocated, thus we talk.
Whether I recall the details of any such chit chat will depend on the nature of the conversation and when, where and why it took place. If all we do is catch up on things socially, I won't recall any details beyond that the conversation was social in nature and that we exchanged pleasantries along the lines of such assorted themes. (I don't yet have grandkids, but when friends and I talk about our kids, those chats can range from a few minutes to an hour or more, covering things like their school, sports, trips, scraped knees, broken bones and other infirmities, personalities, careers, social or academic events, interests, gifts for the kids, etc.)
Would I a year later recall what was said? No. But there's a difference between bantering at a chance encounter with people with whom one routinely interacts and preparing for and attending meeting with one's co-principals and several veritable strangers who're offering what is purported to be game changing information. Were I (or my parent), at the time of the meeting, subject to criticism about being a puppet of Putin, I damn sure wouldn't forget meeting with a woman and a pro-Russian lobbyist who was identified to me as being a conduit of information, data allegedly detrimental to my opponent, proffered by the Russian government, and by its autocratic head who'd made no bones about preferring Trump win, to advance its interest in aiding my efforts to win a presidential election.
And then there's the fact that Clinton and Lynch didn't try to hide the fact that they availed themselves of the circumstance of their respective planes being parked at the same airport and spoke. The Trump cohort have gone from denying having had any form or contact with Russians to having met with the Russian Ambassador and having a meeting with a Russian woman and a lobbyist who represented the interests of the Russian government and Putin.
Though political process meddling by a foreign state and/or it's sanctioned shills is not okay, it's thoroughly unacceptable when that nation is an adversary. At least one's allies have some measure of one's best interest in mind, even if that interest is seconded, in part, to their own. One's adversaries have no concern for one's best interest; they are concerned with and promote the very opposite of one's best interest. That is why the fact that it's Russia matters. The last time Russia was nominally a U.S. ally was WWII.
