The New York Occasions Saturday printed a report confirming that Donald Trump was certainly on a rocky helicopter journey as he earlier claimed. However it was not with Willie Brown, the previous San Francisco mayor, Kamala Harris’ ex-boyfriend as Trump claimed in his press convention Thursday. On Friday, NYT mentioned the ‘jaw-dropping story’ that Trump instructed about almost dying in a helicopter journey really by no means occurred.
On Friday afternoon, Trump angrily known as the NYT and threatened to sue them as he vehemently maintained that he had as soon as been in a harmful helicopter touchdown with Willie Brown and had data of the journey.
“In an indignant telephone name to a New York Occasions reporter as he landed a number of hours away from his deliberate rally in Bozeman, Mont., due to a mechanical problem on his aircraft, Mr. Trump excoriated The Occasions for its protection of his meandering information convention on Thursday at Mar-a-Lago, his non-public membership and residential, throughout which he instructed of an emergency touchdown throughout a helicopter journey that he mentioned each he and Mr. Brown had made collectively,” the NYT reported.
On Friday afternoon, Trump angrily known as the NYT and threatened to sue them as he vehemently maintained that he had as soon as been in a harmful helicopter touchdown with Willie Brown and had data of the journey.
“In an indignant telephone name to a New York Occasions reporter as he landed a number of hours away from his deliberate rally in Bozeman, Mont., due to a mechanical problem on his aircraft, Mr. Trump excoriated The Occasions for its protection of his meandering information convention on Thursday at Mar-a-Lago, his non-public membership and residential, throughout which he instructed of an emergency touchdown throughout a helicopter journey that he mentioned each he and Mr. Brown had made collectively,” the NYT reported.
NYT reported Saturday that it was Nate Holden, 95, a former Los Angeles metropolis councilman who had been on a helicopter journey with Trump round 1990 when the plane made an emergency touchdown in New Jersey. NYT’s Maggie Haberman mentioned she was in a name with Trump on one other problem after which Trump introduced the helicopter story.
Haberman mentioned she requested Trump to point out the document to which Trump mocked her in a sing-song tone saying ‘Oh you’d like to see the data’ in a childlike voice.
Donald Trump helicopter emergency touchdown story: Defined in 10 factors
- Donald Trump throughout his press convention on Thursday mentioned he is aware of Willie Brown very properly. The query was lobbed at him by a journalist in context of Willie Brown’s previous relationship with Kamala Harris
- “Nicely, I do know Willie Brown very properly,” Trump responded. “The truth is, I went down in a helicopter with him.” Then he instructed a narrative of how there was an emergency touchdown of the helicopter.
- Trump additionally mentioned Willie Brown instructed him ‘horrible issues’ about Kamala Harris when Brown and Harris have been relationship.
- Willie Brown dismissed the complete story and mentioned neither of it occurred. Brown mentioned he was by no means on a helicopter with Trump and he couldn’t envision Kamala Harris in any detrimental technique to say “horrible issues” about her.
- Brown mentioned Donald Trump was dreaming and the complete story of a helicopter journey collectively was fiction.
- Then media shops speculated that Trump in all probability was talking a couple of helicopter journey with Jerry Brown in 2018, complicated between Jerry Brown and Willie Brown. However there was no emergency touchdown there, Gavin Newsom who was additionally on the flight confirmed.
- Newsom clarified that he by no means spoke about Kamala Harris with Donald Trump both.
- Donald Trump made a protracted submit on Reality Social about “two failing New York Occasions reporters” for questioning his helicopter story.
- Trump emphasised that it was Willie Brown and never Jerry Brown.
- Amid all this confusion, Nate Holden mentioned he remembered a near-death expertise on a helicopter journey with Donald Trump. “Willie is the quick Black man dwelling in San Francisco,” Holden mentioned. “I’m a tall Black man dwelling in Los Angeles.” “I assume all of us look alike,” Holden instructed Politico, letting out a loud snicker.
