Former United States president Donald Trump recently recalled a scary helicopter trip with former mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown, who had been "a little concerned" as they went "down" together. According to the BBC , while describing the events of the helicopter ride, Trump, 78, said: "We thought maybe this was the end. We were in a helicopter.
.. and there was an emergency landing.
This was not a pleasant landing." However, Brown, 90, has dismissed the story as "fiction", saying that he had never shared a helicopter with Trump, adding: "I don't think I'd want to ride on the same helicopter with him." Trump seemed to have mistaken Brown for Jerry Brown, the ex-governor of California, with whom he had travelled in a helicopter in 2018 to visit the aftermath of the Paradise wildfires with the current state governor Gavin Newsom also on the flight, according to the BBC .
Both Brown and Newsom told US media there had been no emergency landing or danger. "I call complete BS," Newsom told The New York Times . Trump's story came in response to a question about Willie Brown's relationship with US Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, in the mid-1990s while she was a California prosecutor.
The former president was asked whether he thought the relationship had played a role in Harris's career journey. "Well, I know Willie Brown very well," Trump said, before speaking of the flight and claiming the former mayor had told him "terrible things" about Harris. "He had a big part in what happ.