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 happened with Kamala," Trump said.
The former mayor also denied this and said: "That's so far-fetched, it's unbelievable. I could not envision thinking of Kamala Harris in any negative way. "She's a good friend a long time ago, absolutely beautiful woman, smart as all hell, very successful, electorally speaking.
He was doing what Donald does best, his creative fiction." Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Jerry Brown also said that he had not discussed Harris on the helicopter flight in 2018. Trump's remarks at an hour-long news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate come as a recent national poll shows Harris is beating him among likely voters.
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