Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown has threatened to sue Donald Trump after the former president told an allegedly completely fictious story about him. During a lie-filled press conference at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, the former president recounted what now appears to be a tall tale about a helicopter ride he claims he once took with Brown. In the rambling story, Trump claimed that he and 90-year-old Brown – who briefly dated Kamala Harris in the mid-1990s – narrowly survived a helicopter crash and that, during the near-death experience, the mayor had spoken ill about his former girlfriend.
“Well, I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought, maybe this is the end,” Trump said.
“We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing.” Despite fearing they were near death, the Republican presidential nominee claimed that Brown took that moment to slander his former lover. “This was not a pleasant landing, and Willie, he was – he was a little concerned.
So I know him pretty well. I mean, I haven’t seen him in years. But he told me terrible things about [ Kamala Harris ],” Trump continued.
Not long after Trump had finished speaking, Brown rubbished every single aspect of his story from the helicopter ride together to him criticizing Harris. “I’ve never done business with Donald Trump , let’s start with that,” Brown told KRON4 . “And secondly, I don’t th.