California Democrat Makes Breakthrough Revelation In Trump's Wild Helicopter Story

A California Democrat said he believes Donald Trump confused him with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown after the former president shared a wild story on Thursday about a helicopter ride with Brown that resulted in an “emergency landing.”

“Willie is the short Black guy living in San Francisco, I’m a tall Black guy living in Los Angeles,” said Nate Holden, who served as a Los Angeles city councilman and California state senator, in an interview with Politico on Friday.

“I guess we all look alike.”

Trump, in a rambling press conference at Mar-a-Lago, claimed he went “down in a helicopter” with Brown and thought it was “the end.” He added that it was “not a pleasant landing” and Brown was “a little concerned” at the time.

Brown, 90, later disputed the claim and called Trump “obviously wrong.”

Holden, 95, has since revealed that Trump may have been thinking of him all along.

Holden recalled getting in contact with Trump, who was known as a developer and businessman, in the 1990s as he was looking to renovate the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

He met the now-Republican nominee at Trump Tower ahead of a trip to Atlantic City to check out the Taj Mahal casino.

Holden was concerned as the ride was “not long after” a helicopter crash killed several top executives at Trump’s casinos in 1989, Politico noted, but Trump assured the California Democrat they’d be fine.

Former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res, who was on the helicopter ride, told Politico that Holden was the man in the aircraft and pointed to her recollection of the incident in her 2013 book.

Res wrote that she saw the co-pilot “pumping a device with all his might” in the cockpit before the pilot told passengers they had to make an emergency landing.

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