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.
“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.”
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.
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”
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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:
Good luck. I’m pretty sure he’s not going to get much in my country. Besides additional cost and getting laughed at.