Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown said Donald Trump’s claim that they had a near-death experience “never happened.”
Republican presidential candidate Trump told reporters at a news conference at Mar-A-Lago that he and Brown were in a helicopter that had to make an emergency landing and that both men thought “this might be the end.”
However, according to Brown, he and Trump were never in the same helicopter and he was instead engaged in his best “creative fiction.”
“I’ve never done business with Donald Trump, let’s start with that,” Brown said CROWN4.
“And secondly, I don’t think I would want to fly in the same helicopter with him. There are too many people who have an agenda regarding him, including the people who maintain helicopters!”
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, pictured, claimed he and Donald Trump never had a near-death experience together
Trump told reporters at a news conference at Mar-A-Lago that he and Brown were in a helicopter that was forced to make an emergency landing
“He did what Donald does best, which is his creative fiction. He’s creative, really creative. It’s so far-fetched, it’s unbelievable.”
He further said that if it happened, the world would have known about it.
Brown said of Kamala Harris, “I’ve been on every campaign she’s been on, have always supported her, and will continue to do so. I’m really looking forward to the next 89 days.”
Yesterday, Trump backtracked on his attacks on Harris’ racial identity, saying at a press conference that it was up to her to explain herself.
Trump was asked during his hour-long press conference on Thursday how he could say the Democratic presidential nominee “just happened to turn black” — a comment he made during a controversial interview at an event for the Association of Black Journalists.
A reporter noted that Harris’ father is Jamaican-American and that she attended a historically black college — Howard University — and wondered why it made sense that she recently decided to become black. (Her mother is an immigrant to the U.S. from India.)
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during her and Gov. Tim Walz’s campaign rally in Wisconsin’s High Country
“Well, well, you’re going to have to ask her that question, because she’s the one who said it. I didn’t say it,” Trump began. “So you’re going to have to ask her. And I appreciate the question very much. But you’re going to have to ask her.”
He then continued to press the issue, recounting the $6,000 he had personally donated to her when she was California’s attorney general.
“But I’ve known her for a long time. I actually contributed to her campaign a long time ago, because I was a developer.
“I’ve worked on many Democratic and Republican campaigns, some liberal and some conservative,” Trump said, before ramping up his criticism of his opponent.