Former S.F. Mayor Willie Brown Denies Having Near-Death Experience With Trump In Helicopter ‘Emergency Landing’

Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, denied ever having faced a near-death experience with former President Donald Trump in a helicopter “emergency landing.”

Trump claimed this incident happened while speaking to reporters at the Mar-a-Lago press conference on Thursday.

“I know Willie Brown very well,” the former president stated. “I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing. This was not a pleasant landing, and Willie was – he was a little concerned. So I know him – I know him pretty well. I mean, I haven’t seen him in years.”

Trump went on to claim that Brown said disparaging things about Vice President Kamala Harris, who reportedly dated Brown, during the incident.

Brown labeled Trump’s recollection as “obviously wrong” during an interview with CNN. “I’ve never been in a helicopter with him in my life,” he added.

“You would have known if I had gone down on a helicopter with Trump,” Brown told the San Francisco Chronicle. 

When asked about the San Francisco mayor’s rebuttal of Trump’s narrative, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung replied, “Slick Willie!”

The former president apparently confused Brown with former California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who toured California wildfire damage by helicopter back in November 2018.

A spokesperson for Brown told the outlet that “there was no emergency landing and no discussion of Kamala Harris.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-California), who also toured the wildfires in 2018 as governor-elect, called Trump’s story “complete B.S.”

“I was on a helicopter with Jerry Brown and Trump, and it didn’t go down,” Newsom told the New York Times. He noted that Trump kept bringing up the possibility of crashing.