The other Black politician who says he was with Trump in that near-fatal chopper crash --
Source: Politico
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 presidents repeated insistence it was Brown.
It was Nate Holden, 95, 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.
Willie is the short Black guy living in San Francisco, Holden said. Im a tall Black guy living in Los Angeles.
I guess we all look alike, Holden told POLITICO, letting out a loud laugh.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/09/trump-plane-crash-california-00173487
Trump is vindicated for being almost right, being a racist asshole, and for having a shitty memory.
Spoiler: Holden didn't spend time in the flight trash talking Harris either.
Tarzanrock
(465 posts)brush
(57,912 posts)Gavin Newsom were both on the flight and said there was no rough landing and no trash talking of VP Harris.
Bucky
(55,334 posts)brush
(57,912 posts)Bucky
(55,334 posts)I don't know what math you're doing, but this makes perfect sense if you're familiar with how human memory functions (or dysfunctions in Trump's case)
He's lost three employees in a helicopter crash. He remembers an actual helicopter safety hiccup in his own past and he remembers there was a black politician in the chopper with him. He's also obsessed with Kamala Harris and thus fixated on Willie Brown's history with her. Plus he routinely objectifies women and sexualizes them in his twisted little fevered imagination.
The best explanation is that Trump has conflated all these facts in his little bone spurs brain and associates one black pol with every other and imagines there was gossip about the rival he's fixated on.
brush
(57,912 posts)Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom spoke of.
Bucky
(55,334 posts)Plus his account entirely backs up Newsom and Brown's account. Trump wasn't in a chopper with Willie Brown. Trump's memory is just fucked up.
brush
(57,912 posts)All kinds of stories can come from that insane combination.
And Willie Brown said he was never on the same flight as Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom. As for the 95-year-old guy in LA being on the same flight with Jerry Brown, Newsom and trump, it might've happened.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,613 posts)and now there's a better candidate for "what Trump started out with, and has embellished and blustered about". On this, Barbara Res (a Trump employee) had already written
After considerable turbulence, they landed safely in New Jersey at an airport where Trump had his commuter helicopters stored.
Res confirms Holden was on the flight, and no Brown - Willy or Jerry. It was in the 1990s (they think 1990, but aren't sure). Too early for Newsom, as well.
mucholderthandirt
(1,191 posts)quaint
(3,606 posts)LymphocyteLover
(6,874 posts)about Kamala. The whole thing was an obvious and stupid fabrication, like most of what dump says.
IronLionZion
(47,035 posts)Ramsey Barner
(669 posts)DeeDeeNY
(3,518 posts)by John Miller and John Barron
This doofus slays me
...except when he's attacking the Constitution
...or getting hundreds of thousands of people killed thru his own incompetence
twodogsbarking
(12,230 posts)Moosepoop
(2,005 posts)From Willie Brown to the NYT...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/politics/trump-helicopter-crash-willie-brown.html
Those are the two things I am certain of, he said. All the rest of this is amusing.
Asked if Mr. Trump might have confused the two California politicians because they are both Black, Mr. Brown said, I wouldnt want to conclude that he cant tell Black people apart, because Id hate for him to think that Im Beyoncé.
And then he burst out laughing.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,911 posts)1. He has no concept of time. He can't recall when things happen so he puts them in a time frame of his choosing.
2. He conflates reality with fantasy because he can't tell the difference.
3. He cannot distinguish individual people anymore so his brain randomly chooses someone from one category two people share ignoring their placement in additional categories.
His brain is soup.
Bucky
(55,334 posts)is an insult to syphilis