Yes, Trump Was in a Scary Helicopter Ride. But Not With That Politician.
Yes, Trump Was in a Scary Helicopter Ride. But Not With That Politician.
There was a helicopter. It did make an emergency landing. But a former California lawmaker says Donald Trump has mixed up one Black lawmaker for another.
Instead, it was Nate Holden. archive
“It was Willie Brown,” Mr. Trump, who spent much of the last year hoping to make gains with Black voters, posted. “But now Willie doesn’t remember?”
Mr. Brown, 90, who was mayor of San Francisco and speaker of the California Assembly, gave several interviews on Thursday and Friday saying such a trip never occurred.
Turns out, however, that there was a Black politician from California who once made an emergency landing in a helicopter with Mr. Trump. It just wasn’t Mr. Brown.
Mr. Holden said that he called Mr. Brown to compare notes. Mr. Brown told him he had never been in a helicopter crash with Mr. Trump.
“I said, ‘Willie, you know what? That’s me!’” Mr. Holden said. “And I told him, “You’re a short Black guy and I’m a tall Black guy — but we all look alike, right?”
Mr. Holden gave his own height as 6-foot-1. “Willie has to be about 5-foot-6. Maybe 5-foot-5. He comes up to about my shoulders. And he’s bald. And I’m not bald.”
Mr. Brown, he said, “just laughed and laughed.”
Mr. Holden, summing up his assessment of Mr. Trump’s recollection, said: “I just think he makes things up. That’s what I think. He never thought anybody’s going to check.”
The way he described it is also rather false.
It made an emergency landing. That is tremendously different from "going down" - otherwise called crashing.
Dudes a liar about some weird shit.
Well, technically... an aircraft "goes down" to touch land, otherwise it would be a submarine... 🥁🛎️
I'm beginning to think Trump might not be fit enough. You know with all the being the oldest cucumber in the basket and also being a racist, rapist, idiot and really, really weird.
Careful /s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CMuLWzL2iY
For those that don't want to click YouTube: It's just Trump's classic rant:
"I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We're going to open up those libel laws. So when The New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they're totally protected"
Good luck. I'm pretty sure he's not going to get much in my country. Besides additional cost and getting laughed at.
Gavin Newsom was also in the ride - the key thing here isn't that he mixed up people with the same last name - it's that he lied about it going down.
It was surveying wildfire damage - it never "went down" except to land. Dudes a big fat liar about some weird shit.