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Former Los Angeles metropolis councilman and California state Sen. Nate Holden stated Friday that he was with former President Donald Trump within the helicopter trip that made an emergency touchdown, regardless of Trump saying it was former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
“Willie is the quick Black man residing in San Francisco,” Holden stated in an interview with Politico late Friday. “I’m a tall Black man residing in Los Angeles.”
“I suppose all of us look alike,” he added.
Trump told reporters gathered at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Thursday that he was concerned in a helicopter emergency touchdown with Brown, who has since rejected Trump’s account as “clearly incorrect” throughout a telephone name with CNN. “I’ve by no means been in a helicopter with him in my life,” Brown stated.
Thursday wasn’t the primary time Trump referenced the incident as one thing he’d skilled with Brown. In a guide, “Letters to Trump,” the previous president recalled the occasion as “a little bit scary for each of us.” Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung pointed that out on Saturday in a post on X.
Holden stated that he was in contact with Trump’s workforce within the Nineteen Nineties as Trump was making an attempt to construct on the positioning of the Ambassador Lodge in Los Angeles, within the district that Holden represented on the time, in keeping with Politico.
Holden recalled assembly with Trump at Trump Tower earlier than departing for Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey, the place they had been planning to tour Trump’s since-closed Taj Mahal on line casino. Additionally aboard was Barbara Res, Trump’s former government vice chairman of building, who instructed POLITICO that the person on the helicopter was undoubtedly Holden.
Res recounted the expertise in her guide “All Alone on the 68th Flooring,” the place she stated the helicopter landed safely in New Jersey after the pilot stated they would want to make an emergency touchdown. She recalled Trump joking about Holden being scared on the flight, with Holden noting to Politico that it was Trump who was ‘scared shitless.’