The candidate of the Republican Party for the presidency of the United States Donald Trump said yesterday that for almost died in a helicopter crash in which he was riding with the former mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA.
Brown denies that such an incident took place, and another politician said he had a similar trip with Trump decades ago.
"I got on a helicopter with him," Trump said at a news conference. "We thought that was the end. We were traveling by helicopter to a location and there was an emergency landing. "It wasn't a nice landing and Willie was a bit worried," he added.
Brown is a longtime influential Democrat who served as speaker of the California state legislature and briefly dated current Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris decades ago.
Trump said Brown told him "terrible things" for Harris.
After Trump's press conference, Brown told the "San Francisco Chronicle" that he was never in a helicopter with the former president and denied ever saying anything bad about Harris to him.
Another California politician, Nate Holden, told Politico last night that he had a similarly turbulent helicopter ride with Trump in New Jersey, possibly in 1990.