Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown has warned that he may take legal action against Donald Trump after the former President claimed the two nearly crashed in a helicopter ride.
In an interview with CBS News this week, Brown declared that he has never flown with Trump and that he is considered filing a lawsuit against the former president because “someone has got to make sure that he stops lying.”
“If he keeps it up, at some point, I’m going to give him a taste of his own conduct,” Brown stated. “If he sues The New York Times for printing that I said he lied, I’m going to sue him,” he added, referring to Trump’s threats to sue The New York Times for flagging the helicopter story as false.
During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, Trump claimed that he and Brown allegedly made disparaging remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Brown dated in the mid-1990s.
“I know Willie Brown very well,” Trump said. “In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought maybe this was the end.”
“Not on a helicopter and not off a helicopter. Didn’t happen,” said Brown. “Nonexistent. He is so creative. I don’t know how he dragged me onto the stage on something that shouldn’t be, in any fashion, a distraction from the magnificence of [Harris’] ascendancy.”
Adding to the confusion, Nate Holden, a former Los Angeles city councilman, suggested that Trump might have confused Brown with him, as both are Black Californian politicians who had their own tumultuous helicopter ride in 1990.
Despite Brown’s repeated assertions that he had no part in the helicopter incident that Trump referred to, the former president doubled down on it and contradicting Brown’s denial in favor of his own faulty recollection.
