Former Mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown called former president Donald Trump’s memory and explained in an interview with CNN on Friday evening that the two had never been in a helicopter together.
The denial of the Vice President’s former confidants Kamala Harris came a day after Trump told reporters from Mar-a-Lago that he and Brown were once so close they had a near-death experience.
“I know Willie Brown very well,” Trump said. “I even flew in a helicopter with him. We thought maybe this was the end. We were in a helicopter together going to a certain place and there was an emergency landing… It was not a pleasant landing and Willie was, he was a little worried. So I know him, I know him pretty well. I mean, I haven’t seen him in years.”
Trump also suggested that Brown had given him some unfavorable information about Harris.
Brown, who previously admitted he once had a romantic relationship with Harris, denied Friday morning that he ever went to heaven with Trump. Later that evening, he reiterated his statement in an interview with CNN’s John Berman.
Berman asked, “Another thing Donald Trump said at that press conference was that you had said derogatory things about Vice President Kamala Harris when you spoke to him. Have you ever had such a conversation with Donald Trump?”
Brown, 90, replied: “No, I didn’t.”
“It sounds, at least in your opinion, as if this whole story, including the helicopter, the near-emergency landing and the conversation about current Vice President Kamala Harris, simply never happened,” Berman insisted.
“That never happened. Period,” Brown replied. “And I think my memory is probably better than his.”
NBC News reported that Trump may have confused Willie Brown with the former governor of California Jerry BrownThe report states:
In 2018, Trump was in a helicopter with Jerry Brown and his successor, then-Governor-elect Gavin Newsomthe day they toured Paradise, California, a town ravaged by wildfires. A spokesman for Jerry Brown disputed Trump’s account of the helicopter flight, saying, “There was no emergency landing and no discussion about Kamala Harris.”
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