Former President Trump says he and Willie Brown nearly crashed in a helicopter and the former San Francisco mayor told him “terrible things” about Trump’s Democratic rival Kamala Harris.
Brown said it was all false.
Republican presidential candidate Trump held a tortuous 65-minute news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, in which he insulted Harris, reiterated false and misleading claims and used apocalyptic statements. The term talks about America.
He also told the story of facing danger on a helicopter with Brown.
“Well, I knew Willie Brown well. In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought, maybe this is the end,” Trump said.
“We all go to a location in a helicopter and make an emergency landing,” he said. “It wasn’t a pleasant landing, Willie, he – he was a little worried. So I know him well. I mean, I haven’t seen him in years. But he told me some scary things. [Kamala Harris]”.
Brown said Trump’s claims were untrue.
“I’ve never done business with Donald Trump, let’s start with that,” Brown told Bay Area television station KRON. “Secondly, I don’t think I want to be in the same helicopter as him.”
He also denied disparaging Harris to Trump.
“It’s as accurate as every other part of the question you asked me,” Brown told the San Francisco Chronicle. “No, that’s not accurate at all.”
Brown told Crown that he “can’t imagine thinking of Kamala Harris in any negative way. She’s been a good friend from a long time ago, an absolutely beautiful woman, very smart and, electorally speaking, very successful.”
Brown dated Harris as her career began in San Francisco in the 1990s. The connection prompted a backlash against Harris from critics who said she benefited politically from the relationship.
Brown did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Times Thursday night.
