Update On The Trump/Brown/Helicopter Story

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : But Holden says Trump told him they were in good hands, noting that he had two capable pilots.
63% : Holden, who is 95 years old, was in touch with Trump and his team during the 1990s when the flamboyant Manhattan developer was trying to build on the site of the historic Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
53% : "After considerable turbulence, they landed safely in New Jersey at an airport where Trump had his commuter helicopters stored.
44% : As Trump told the story, the two were in a helicopter together, and it had to make an emergency landing.
44% : In fact, Holden says he met Trump at Trump Tower, en route to Atlantic City, New Jersey, where they were going to tour the developer's brand new Taj Mahal casino.
38% : Trump has now expanded his Biden Fan Fiction and has included it in his stump speeches.
35% : Willie Brown denied ever flying in a helicopter with Trump.
32% : Journalists looking into the incident suggested Trump might have been drawing on a memory of a helicopter flight Trump took as President with California Governor Jerry Brown.
18% : Trump was in an emergency landing in 1990, just with another politicianYesterday, as part of a long post on Trump's recent press conference, I highlighted one of the more bizarre moments from it: Trump recounting a rough helicopter flight with San Francisco mayor Willie Brown.
6% : The reason Trump told this story was to share that during that ride, Brown told him "terrible things" about Vice President Kamala Harris.
4% : And that's the more significant issue: Trump made up a story or convinced himself of a story pieced together from memory fragments (arguably worse, especially as that could be a sign of cognitive decline) to accuse Brown of attacking Harris.

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