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Sunday, August 11, 2024

The man who almost crashed in a helicopter with Donald Trump told POLITICO Trump confused him with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown despite the former president's repeated insistence it was Brown. It was Nate Holden, a former city councilman and state senator from Los Angeles, who said in an exclusive interview late Friday that he remembers the near-death experience well. He and others believe it happened sometime in 1990.

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"Willie is the short Black guy living in San Francisco," Holden said. "I'm a tall Black guy living in Los Angeles.

"I guess we all look alike," Holden told POLITICO, letting out a loud laugh.

Holden, who is 95 years old, was in touch with Trump and his team during the 1990s when the flamboyant Manhattan developer was trying to build on the site of the historic Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Holden represented the district at the time and supported the project.

Holden says he met Trump at Trump Tower, enroute to Atlantic City, New Jersey, where they were going to tour the developer's brand new Taj Mahal casino. In the lobby at Trump Tower, Holden says he was greeted by several people as "senator," salutations that miffed the host.

"He said, You know I own this building but nobody seems to know who I am," Holden remembered the mogul saying.

Holden recalled being a bit worried about the helicopter ride because it came not long after five people, including three high-level executives of Trump's casinos, were killed when their chopper crashed in 1989 over Forked River, N.J..

Also aboard was Trump's late brother, Robert, the attorney Harvey Freedman and Barbara Res, Trump's former executive vice president of construction and development. Res told POLITICO on Friday that she also remembers the ride well. In fact, she said she wrote about it in her book, "All Alone on the 68th Floor."

On that ride, she said the pilots started feverishly maneuvering the equipment as the chopper lurched over the water. "From the corner of my eye, I can see in the cockpit and what I see is the co-pilot pumping a device with all his might," Res wrote in her book. Donald Trump and Robert Trump were reassuring Holden.

"Very shortly thereafter the pilot let us know he had lost some instruments and we would need to make an emergency landing," she wrote. "By now, the helicopter was shaking like crazy."

After considerable turbulence, they landed safely in New Jersey at an airport where Trump had his commuter helicopters stored.

"That's the story, OK," Res said. "No Willie Brown."

What should be concerning to the American electorate (or specifically those voters within it who already don't find Trump's incessant lying and decades-long history of criminal conduct and questionable business practices disqualifying) is not that Trump got confused over the specifics of an event that occurred 30+ years ago, it's his refusal to accept that his memory is wrong as those he named have all come forward and said such an event didn't happen with them while they were with Trump.

Transpose this denialism and inability to be swayed by others telling him that his recollection is incorrect onto any issue he might have to deal with should he become President again. Joe Biden has never publicly shown this type of mental defect ever that so clearly calls his judgments into question for failing to accept the truth of a matter over what his failed memory is telling him.

If Republicans were so worried about the state of Joe Biden's fitness for holding office, how can they not be even more worried about Trump's failing recall that juxtaposes people and places while his ego refuses to allow him to accept the truth when he's given the correct details?

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-08-10 09:13 AM | Reply

So no discussion of Harris?
Totally wrong incident?
Not the helo Newsom was on?
Not in California?
Not even close on who was in the helo with him?
So the two things Trump might have gotten right was there was a helo and there was an emergency landing?
No conversation, not the right people, not the right location, nothing relevant to his "story" except those two things.
What a weirdo.

#2 | Posted by YAV at 2024-08-10 09:23 AM | Reply

I apologize. It appears this one was in CA, in LA?

#3 | Posted by YAV at 2024-08-10 09:33 AM | Reply

It appears this one was in CA, in LA?

No, the incident happened in NYC. They met at Trump Tower and were traveling to Atlantic City to tour Trump's then brand new Taj Mahal Casino and Hotel.

#4 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-08-10 09:50 AM | Reply

Plus the icing on the cake is that Res wrote about the incident in a book she wrote and published a few years back.

#5 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-08-10 10:30 AM | Reply

"Trump hits NYT while doubling down on near-crash helicopter story

Former President Trump went after The New York Times Friday night, defending his claim that former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown once traveled with him in a helicopter that nearly crashed.

"Two Failing New York Times reporters' questioned my story about a forced landing of a helicopter, in a field, with former Mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, and others," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

"First of all, it was in New Jersey, not California, and it was Willie Brown, not former Governor Jerry Brown. So far they are about as accurate as they are with their other stories about me."

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"The Times reported Friday that Trump had a fiery phone call with one of its reporters that day, going after the paper because of reporting on his Thursday press conference.

The former president also implied that he had plans to divulge the flight records prior to yelling that he was "probably going to sue" the Times over the report, per the outlet."

thehill.com

Lol... the very essence of doubling down on Stupid. OK, maybe on Senile, too.

We have come to expect no less from the Cult Leader.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2024-08-11 11:23 AM | Reply

Trump Confused Willie Brown With Another Black Politician

Poor Don-OLD. Someone should send him this article: "How to Live Happily During Old Age" www.wikihow.com

#7 | Posted by censored at 2024-08-11 04:16 PM | Reply

#7 - "Don-OLD" I believe that is my new favorite descriptor for the fraud who would be dictator.

#8 | Posted by gavaster at 2024-08-11 04:41 PM | Reply

Poor Don-OLD. Someone should send him this article: "How to Live Happily During Old Age"
#7 | Posted by censored at 2024-08-11 04:16 PM |

What is remarkable about Biden is he came out of retirement to kick Trumpanzees fat @$$... and bruise his ego. Worked too.

Now he can go back to what he was doing.

#9 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-08-12 06:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's the same retarded ---- that has had #6 and #7 cheering for children to be raped to death their entire lives.

"They all look alike..."

#10 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-08-12 07:25 PM | Reply

Dotard didn't confuse anything, he wanted to tell a lie that Willie Brown talked ish about VPOTUS, part of his ---- shaming of her, and he used the helecopter lie to spice it up. Imagine his shock when a bunch of reporters went to Willie and asked about the story, and it turned out to be a complete lie. I bet Dotard thought Willie Brown was dead. The timid media didn't fact check the orange diaper sharter nearly enough in 2016 or 2020, maybe Lawrence O'Donnell's criticism the other night stung a few of these "journalists" into action. Whats funny is that Mango Mussolini's helecopter ride took place in 1990, long before anybody knew who Kamala Harris was.

#11 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-08-13 07:57 AM | Reply

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