Donald Trump pushed a narrative about an “emergency” helicopter touchdown that a number of Democrats swiftly shut down following the previous president’s wild, false claim-laden information convention Thursday.
The Republican nominee, when requested about Vice President Kamala Harris’ previous relationship with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, mentioned he knew Brown “very nicely” earlier than launching right into a story about going “down in a helicopter” with him.
“We thought, ‘Perhaps that is the top.’ We have been in a helicopter going to a sure location collectively, and there was an emergency touchdown,” claimed Trump as he spoke to reporters in a rambling press convention at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida.
“This was not a pleasing touchdown, and Willie was, he was somewhat involved. So I do know him, I do know him fairly nicely. I imply, I haven’t seen him in years.”
Brown, 90, a longtime high Democrat in California, was as soon as on a helicopter with out Trump when it made a “harrowing emergency landing” in 2004, a number of months after leaving workplace.
However — as he told the San Francisco Chronicle in addition to CNN on Thursday — he by no means had such an expertise with the previous president, whom he known as “clearly mistaken.”
“You’d have recognized if I had gone down on a helicopter with Trump,” Brown informed the Chronicle as he additionally disputed Trump’s declare that he trashed Harris, whom he dated for roughly a 12 months within the mid-Nineteen Nineties. “I’ve by no means been on a helicopter with Trump.”
Brown told San Francisco’s KRON-TV that the Republican nominee was doing what he does greatest together with his “fictional” creativity.
Trump seems to have been complicated him with former California Gov. Jerry Brown, NBC Information famous.
Jerry Brown and the state’s then-incoming governor, Gavin Newsom, shared a helicopter with Trump in 2018 as they toured wildfire harm within the state.
The previous California governor’s spokesperson told The New York Times that there was no emergency touchdown and no dialogue of Harris on the journey. And Newsom confirmed the plane “didn’t go down.”
“I name full B.S.,” Newsom mentioned of the helicopter story.
