Former U.S. president Donald Trump recounted a story to reporters on Thursday about being involved in a helicopter emergency landing with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.

Asked by a reporter about U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ previous relationship with Brown and whether it helped her career trajectory, Trump said he knew Brown “very well” and told a story about the alleged helicopter incident.

“I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, 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,” Trump told reporters gathered at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for his first news conference since the Democratic ticket was announced.

Brown, however, rejected Trump’s account as “obviously wrong” during a phone call later Thursday with CNN, saying: “I’ve never been in a helicopter with him in my life.”

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    3 months ago

    Maybe Holden and Brown both became black like Kamala and when you’re a fresh black person, you tend to look like the industrial negroid mold they use.

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      Trending on xitter (for real, I just spent 72 hours there, voluntarily, was invited to join in April, '06, made acct, never used it):

      “Kamala isn’t African-American. She’s Jamaican-Indian!”

      True story.
      Oh, now I can dunk, “I deleted my 18 year old twitter!”

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        Yeah, there’s this new idea they’re trying to push that Jamaicans aren’t black. Wait until they find out that her father had a white grandparent. I’m guessing they won’t agree that a multiracial child of a multiracial man is pretty fucking awesome. But they’re still both black.

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          They’re also pointing out she’s descended from slave owners (Hamilton?), so they’re making her less Black by the minute.

          Also:

          African
          Song by Peter Tosh

          Don’t care where you come from As long as you’re a black man You’re an African No mind your nationality You have got the identity of an African

          Cause if you go to the Catholic And if you go to the Methodist And if you go to the Church of Gods You’re an African

          'Cause if you come from Brixton And if you come from Weesday And if you come from Wingstead And if you come from France …Brooklyn …Queens …Manhattan …Canada …Miami …Switzerland …Germany …Russia …Taiwan