Former Calif. Sen. Nate Holden says he flew with Trump during emergency helicopter landing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "[Trump] has also told the helicopter story before, in his 2023 book, Letters to Trump, in which he published letters to him from a number of people, including Brown.
53% : "After considerable turbulence, they landed safely in New Jersey at an airport where Trump had his commuter helicopters stored.
50% : Holden said he met Trump at Trump Tower, en route to Atlantic City, N.J., where they were going to tour the developer's brand new Taj Mahal casino.
47% : "Willie was -- he was a little concerned [about Harris]," Trump said while relating his tale of going "down in a helicopter with him.""So I know him, but I know him pretty well.
44% : During the 1990s he said he was trying with Trump to build on the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, the district that Holden represented at the time, according to Politico.
33% : Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Former Los Angeles city councilman and state Sen. Nate Holden said that he was the one with Trump in a helicopter ride that made an emergency landing and not former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
32% : "Trump concluded, "He was not a fan of hers very much, at that point.
25% : "Then-Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown accompanied Trump during a trip to survey damage caused by the deadly 2018 California wildfires, The New YorkTimes reported Thursday, indicating the former president either confused the two Browns or fabricated the story.

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