Trump was in scary helicopter ride, but not with Willie Brown | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : "Well, I know Willie Brown very well," Trump responded.
61% : Trump wanted him to see his Taj Mahal casino, Holden said, so on a visit to Manhattan, he rode with Trump from his midtown skyscraper to a helipad, where the two took off for Atlantic City, accompanied by Trump's brother Robert and by his executive vice president of construction and development, Barbara Res.
46% : During a news conference on Thursday, Trump told a story about an emergency helicopter landing.
45% : Recounting an episode that he had described earlier Friday to Politico, Holden said Trump had been seeking to develop the site of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles when it was part of Holden's district.
43% : Brown told him he had never been in a helicopter with Trump.
41% : Turns out, however, that there was a Black politician from California who once made an emergency landing in a helicopter with Trump.
40% : "It was Willie Brown," Trump, who spent much of the last year hoping to make gains with Black voters, posted.
38% : Nate Holden, 95, a former Los Angeles City Council member and state senator, said in an interview with the Times that he had been on a helicopter ride with Trump around 1990 when the aircraft experienced mechanical trouble and was forced to make an emergency landing in New Jersey.
35% : "He was not fan of hers very much, at that point," Trump said.
29% : A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
29% : "Asked if Trump might have confused the two California politicians because they are both Black, Brown said, "I wouldn't want to conclude that he can't tell Black people apart, because I'd hate for him to think that I'm Beyoncé."
27% : "Trump told the story about nearly dying in a helicopter crash with Brown after a reporter at Thursday's news conference asked him a leading question about Vice President Kamala Harris' long-ago relationship with Brown and whether it helped her career trajectory.
22% : Res, who also spoke to Politico, recalled that Trump liked to say that Holden had "turned white" from fear, but that it was actually Trump whose face was ashen.
19% : Trump had previously told the story, saying it was Brown on a helicopter with him, in his book, "Letters to Trump," which was published in 2023.Reached again Friday night, Brown reiterated that he had never flown in a helicopter with Trump and that he had not denigrated Harris to the former president because he admires and respects her.

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