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San Francisco’s former mayor Willie Brown has dismissed as “fiction” Donald Trump’s story that they as soon as endured a scary helicopter journey collectively.
The former president stated on Thursday that he and Mr Brown had gone “down” in a helicopter collectively and Mr Brown had been “a little concerned”.
“We thought maybe this was the end,” Trump stated. “We were in a helicopter… and there was an emergency landing. This was not a pleasant landing.”
Trump later insisted the story was true in a name to the New York Times, saying he was “probably going to sue” with out elaborating.
Mr Brown, 90, advised US media he had by no means shared a helicopter with Trump, including: “I don’t think I’d want to ride on the same helicopter with him.”
Trump, 78, gave the impression to be complicated Mr Brown with Jerry Brown, California’s former governor, with whom he shared a helicopter journey in 2018 to go to the aftermath of the Paradise wildfires. Gavin Newsom, the present state governor, was additionally on the flight.
Both males advised US media there had been no emergency touchdown or hazard. “I call complete BS,” Mr Newsom advised The New York Times.
Trump advised his story in response to a query about Willie Brown’s relationship with Kamala Harris, 59, within the mid-Nineties whereas she was a California prosecutor.
Trump was requested whether or not he thought the connection had performed a job in Ms Harris’s profession journey.
“Well, I know Willie Brown very well,” Trump stated, earlier than talking of the flight and claiming the previous mayor had advised him “terrible things” about Ms Harris.
“He had a big part in what happened with Kamala,” Trump stated.
The former mayor additionally denied this.
“That’s so far-fetched, it’s unbelievable,” he advised native TV station KRON. “I could not envision thinking of Kamala Harris in any negative way.
“She’s a superb pal a very long time in the past, completely lovely lady, sensible as all hell, very profitable, electorally talking.
“He was doing what Donald does best, his creative fiction.”
A spokesperson for Jerry Brown additionally advised US media that the previous governor had not mentioned Ms Harris on the helicopter flight in 2018.
Trump’s remarks at an hour-long information convention at his Mar-a-Lago property come as a latest nationwide ballot reveals Ms Harris is thrashing him amongst probably voters.
A survey carried out by the New York Times and Siena College from 5 to 9 August places Ms Harris forward of Trump by 50% to 46% in three key battleground states – Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
It comes after a latest YouGov ballot, carried out on 4-6 August, which advised she would win the favored vote, with 45% of respondents saying they’d vote for her in November, in comparison with 43% for Trump.
