I’m sure the New York Times is relieved to hear this. Yes, Virginia, there was a ride in a helicopter with a Black politician. The man’s name is Nate Holden and he was a city councilman and state senator in California. He did take a ride in a helicopter once with Donald Trump circa 1990, because there was discussion of Trump building in Los Angeles at the site of the old Ambassador Hotel (where Bobby Kennedy was assassinated.) Holden says, “I guess we all look alike to him.” Must be. Black is Black. Black politicians are like cans of beans, fungible goods, right? Politico:
Also aboard was Trump’s late brother, Robert, the attorney Harvey Freedman and Barbara Res, Trump’s former executive vice president of construction and development. Res told POLITICO on Friday that she also remembers the ride well. In fact, she said she wrote about it in her book, “All Alone on the 68th Floor.” […]
“Very shortly thereafter the pilot let us know he had lost some instruments and we would need to make an emergency landing,” she wrote. “By now, the helicopter was shaking like crazy.”
After considerable turbulence, they landed safely in New Jersey at an airport where Trump had his commuter helicopters stored.
Within an hour, they were in Atlantic City. Holden and Res had a nice lunch at the casino courtesy of Trump and went back to New York. “We may not have gotten much business done, but it sure as hell was memorable,” she wrote.
Over the phone Friday, Res said Trump liked to tell a joke about Holden on the helicopter — “you turned white,” he said. But she said it was Trump’s face that was white.
“He was white as snow,” Holden added. “And he was scared shitless.”
When asked for comment, a Trump campaign spokesperson just referred to a paragraph in a New York Times article about the incident.
“[Trump] has also told the helicopter story before, in his 2023 book, ‘Letters to Trump,’ in which he published letters to him from a number of people, including Mr. Brown. In the book, Mr. Trump wrote, ‘We actually had an emergency landing in a helicopter together. It was a little scary for both of us, but thankfully we made it.’” […]
Before he hung up with POLITICO, Holden assured a reporter that nobody discussed—let alone criticized—Kamala Harris as Trump claimed Brown did.
“He either mixed it up,” Holden said. “Or, he made it up. This was just too big to overlook. This is a big one. Conflating Willie Brown and me? The press is searching for the real story and they didn’t get it. You did.”
So you get the picture. There was an incident that took place, the mechanical issue with the helicopter. That’s the true part. But the people on board were not correct. Willie Brown was not there. Nate Holden was. And the substance of the story, that Brown allegedly trashed Kamala Harris is completely false.
Or, Trump did in fact have a conversation with some other person, maybe Black, and that person trashed Harris and Trump is mixing the two memories. Who knows? But the point is, Trump is going bonkers, doubling down, threatening to sue the New York Times and in truth, he’s the one who’s got the facts wrong. Not the Times. Him. What else is new?
The helicopter ride occurred when Harris was 25……..she didn’t start dating Willie Brown until she was 29, so no one mentioned her.
Trump is lying again, as usual. Imagine that.
“Or, Trump did in fact have a conversation with some other person, maybe Black, and that person trashed Harris and Trump is mixing the two memories.”
Maybe that conversation was with Tim Scott?
WOW, if you threatened to drive a nail through Trump’s lower lip every time he told a lie, he’d STILL lie until he looked like he had a metal beard …
After 30,000 lies to us, the citizens of the United States of America, We the People, generally accept, that if Trump is speaking, he is also telling another lie …
Trump’s so desperately stupid, I can barely tolerate the smarmy sound of his voice …
Trump’s not smart enough to know how to skate, with those outrageous high lifts beneath his feet, his fall through the thin ice will be over in a flash and then the DNR will have to drain the pond to drag out the carcass wearing hazmat suits so they won’t have to worry about smelling, or heaven forbid touching his used depends …
I can’t imagine the Trump crew can have Trump appear in public much longer, he’s already showing the effects of dents in his Ego, ones he is incapable of fixing with auto-body putty and sand paper … His core of mindless drivel is shaking with fear of the sharp knife carried by MS. Harris, the one she has sharpened with care over the years, She will not hesitate to eviscerate Trump, leaving a heap of useless Trump for the custodians and first responders to clear out before the next event in that place …
Everything about Trump IS TOXIC and the more he tries to vocalize against Kamala, his fake claims to fame are dimmed to almost fade-to-black, like the stage managers used to close off the stage curtains at the end of a play, then the curtains would be flung open for a bow from the actors … there will NOT be any credit to Trump’s past except his inept and deadly handling of the Pandemic, his bought and paid for Insurrection at our Capitol Building, his treason for taking sides with Putin in front of god AND the World …
Trump’s final take-down cannot happen soon enough …
Ivana sure was a pretty lady. Hell, she had everything in spades-looks, smarts, biz sense, etc. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why on earth she got with shitzi.
Believe it or not, he wasn’t bad looking back then. He was still a big box of crazy, though. He used to show up at 54 and sit with his back against the wall like some kind of mob boss with a contract out on his head. He was usually high on the Colombian marching powder. I once saw him snort lines off of a strippers ass who was kneeling in front of him. He was born lucky. Not just rich, but, have you ever met someone that people just were infatuated with? That was he. born with a platinum spoon up his ass.
Apparently she actually loved him.and was heartbroken when he dumped her. Neither Marla nor Melania loved him, I suspect. He was a means to an end for both of them. Transactional.marriages both ways.