At his Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump told a dramatic story about a helicopter emergency landing with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
During the story, Trump said he knew Brown “very well” and told a story about the alleged helicopter incident.
“I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing,”
Brown, however, rejected Trump’s account as “obviously wrong” and told CNN:
“I’ve never been in a helicopter with him in my life.”
“He is trying his best to get some way to degrade Kamala,” the former mayor also said of Trump and his Democratic rival for the presidency. “There is no reason why her name ought to be mentioned anywhere near his lies, period.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who also toured the wildfires in 2018 as governor-elect, said of Trump’s account, “I call complete B.S.,” according to the Times.
“I was on a helicopter with Jerry Brown and Trump, and it didn’t go down,” Newsom told reporters.