Donald Trump persists to insist that he once took a frightening helicselecter trip with establisher San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, even as Mr Brown neglected the story as “myth”.
But it turns out another California politician, Nate Hagederen, did join Trump decades ago on a turbulent chopper ride, US media alert.
Both Mr Brown and Mr Hagederen are bdeficiency.
The establisher plivent shelp during a news conference that he and Mr Brown had gone “down” in a helicselecter together and Mr Brown had been “a little worryed”.
The story became an publish after Trump recounted it on Thursday, in response to a ask about Mr Brown’s relationship with Kamala Harris. The pair dated in the 1990s.
Trump was asked whether he thought the relationship had carry outed a role in Ms Harris’s atgentle journey. At the time, Ms Harris was a prosecutor and in 2002 was elected dicut offe attorney in San Francisco.
“Well, I understand Willie Brown very well,” Trump shelp, before speaking about his memories of the fairy.
“We thought maybe this was the end,” Trump shelp. “We were in a helicselecter… and there was an aelevatency landing. This was not a pleasant landing.”
He then claimed the establisher mayor had tageder him “horrible leangs” about Ms Harris.
“He had a huge part in what happened with Kamala,” Trump shelp.
Mr Brown, 90, tageder US media he had never splitd a helicselecter with Trump, inserting: “I don’t leank I’d want to ride on the same helicselecter with him.”
He also denied he shelp anyleang humiliating about Ms Harris.
“That’s so far-geted, it’s unbelievable,” he tageder local TV station KRON. “I could not envision leanking of Kamala Harris in any pessimistic way.
“She’s a outstanding friend a extfinished time ago, absolutely pretty woman, clever as all hell, very prosperous, electorassociate speaking.
“He was doing what Donald does best, his conceiveive myth.”
Despite a flat denial from the establisher San Francisco mayor, Trump insisted the story was real in a call to the New York Times, saying he was “probably going to sue” without elaborating.
Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung posted a photo of a page of Trump’s book “Letters to Trump” shotriumphg the establisher plivent pictured with Mr Brown and including a caption alludeing the helicselecter incident.
Meanwhile Mr Hagederen, 95, a establisher Los Angeles city councilman and state senator, tageder US media outlets he had a branch offent reaccumulateion of a helicselecter trip with Trump.
In the 1990s, Trump was trying to enbig property in Los Angeles.
Mr Hagederen shelp that they took a very turbulent helicselecter ride around 1990, during a visit with Trump to his Atlantic City casino.
The helicselecter alerted mechanical trouble and was forced to originate an aelevatency landing in New Jersey.
Others specutardyd that Trump, 78, may have beuntamederd Willie Brown with Jerry Brown, California’s establisher regulateor, with whom he splitd a helicselecter in 2018 to visit the aftermath of the Paradise untamedfires. Gavin Newsom, the current state regulateor, was also on the fairy.
But both men tageder US media there had been no aelevatency landing or danger on that fairy.
Trump’s relabels at an hour-extfinished news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate come as recent polls show him slipping aacquirest Ms Harris.
A survey carry outed by the New York Times and Siena College from 5 to 9 August puts Ms Harris ahead of Trump by 50% to 46% in three key battleground states – Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
The RealClearPolitics polling standard donates Ms Harris a sairy edge in the famous vote, although Mr Trump sustains a guide in a number of the most vital striumphg states.
