Yes, Trump had helicopter scare, but not with Brown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

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.
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.
29% : A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
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.

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