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Sunday, August 11, 2024

Donald Trump wasn't completely lying about his near-death helicopter experience after all, but the 2024 Republican presidential nominee did get a few details mixed-up. For one, the Black man Trump mistook for former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was actually former Los Angeles city councilman and state senator, Nate Holden. "I guess we all look alike," said Holden in an interview with Politico. He added, "Willie is the short Black guy living in San Francisco. I'm a tall Black guy living in Los Angeles." Even though it was Trump's own mistake, The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN that Trump has threatened to sue the newspaper for reporting that Brown denied the incident.

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Trump claimed to have records to prove the incident, and made fun of Haberman when she asked to see them.

"He made fun of me asking that in a sort of child sing-song voice," said Haberman. But she said what she found most interesting about her talk with Trump was that he chose to focus on proving the incident over his presidential campaign.

"He was focusing on this because that is what we have seen him do historically when he is in times of stress," said Haberman.

The embarrassing racial mix-up comes as a new poll by The New York Times/Siena College shows that Trump's Black opponent, Kamala Harris, is now leading him in three battleground states.

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Trump has perfected his on-woe-is-poor-me shtick to the point where he can enliven those otherwise woefully somnambulent karaoke nights at his Palm Beach pile by bellowing out the parts of both Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold's while warbling "I Remember It Well" to anyone who will listen at the frozen crab claw buffet.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-08-11 07:58 AM | Reply

---- that Fat Old Man.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-11 11:31 AM | Reply

... Trump has threatened to sue the newspaper ...

Draining more funds from his campaign?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-11 12:03 PM | Reply

Those records of which I speak? Some are 45 rpm, others 78's. I'm not saying one is good and one is bad. I'm just saying. That's what they're saying. The ones detailing that bad, very bad helicopter flight are filed on the finest, most perfect paper with typing and everything. I think they're with my comic book collection in Melanie's bedroom, the unused one way off over there? Yeah, that one or with the folders containing that very nice and polite letter from Jesus, the recipe for Coke, codes for disabling nuclear missiles in-flight or something like that in the hut with the pool chemicals.
~ Don "Hi, Mrs. Cleaver" Trump

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-08-11 04:45 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Dementia Don caught lying. What a shocker.

Trump has threatened to sue the newspaper for reporting that Brown denied the incident.

Open up those wallets, magats....dear leader needs more legal funds.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-08-12 08:31 AM | Reply

I know I couldn't produce any sort of record from any flight 20+ years ago. I did have a scare in a Huey when riding in the back. Turned out it was a practice auto-rotation. Good thing I had just used the trump before getting on board or I would have crapped myself. Pilots and crew chief had a chuckle. I got the last laugh two months later when one of the pilots came in for his annual physical. Got a one finder salute sans lube.

#6 | Posted by mattm at 2024-08-12 12:54 PM | Reply

I know I couldn't produce any sort of record from any flight 20+ years ago. I did have a scare in a Huey when riding in the back. Turned out it was a practice auto-rotation. Good thing I had just used the trump before getting on board or I would have crapped myself. Pilots and crew chief had a chuckle. I got the last laugh two months later when one of the pilots came in for his annual physical. Got a one finder salute sans lube.

#7 | Posted by mattm at 2024-08-12 12:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Records?

I got plenty of records and documents at my bug infested golf motel.

- Sh*tler

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-08-12 12:56 PM | Reply

#7 | Posted by mattm

I did USO tours when I was fresh behind the ears. We flew everywhere in Hueys and Chinooks in country.

My close call happened after we played a remote LORAN station on an island in the South China Sea for about 50 guys. A storm was moving in, so they gave us the option of not leaving until it passed. We decided to stay for a few more hours. The Chinook crew took off without us and crashed a few miles offshore. Fortunately, all survived.

#9 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-08-12 01:01 PM | Reply

They practice landing Hueys on a glide path. I had no idea you could slide on skids for 50 yards. An auto-rotation is when you cut the engine and glide in with the rotor still spinning. Surreal to just have the wind as you bring it in.
The Chinook doesn't fly, it beats the air into submission. Got to practice an air assault out of a Chinook, that was cool. The problem with Air Assault is that once on the ground you are foot infantry with only the supplies and equipment that can be landed or dropped.

#10 | Posted by mattm at 2024-08-12 01:31 PM | Reply

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