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Actually, Trump May Have Confused Willie Brown With Another Black Politician From California In Helicopter Story

Aug 10, 2024 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -17% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Trump was reportedly seeking support from Holden for his plans to build a hotel on the site of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and invited Holden out to New York.
47% : The two then boarded a helicopter in Manhattan to fly out to Atlantic City in New Jersey, where Trump had recently built the Taj Mahal casino resort.
35% : But we now have a better explanation for why Trump doubled down on his story and is telling the New York Times that he wants to sue them over their attempts to discredit him.
13% : And Governor Gavin Newsom has tried to suggest that Trump confused Willie Brown and Jerry Brown, with whom Trump did share a helicopter in 2018.
12% : Res noted that Trump liked to joke after that incident that Holden had "turned white" during the ordeal, but that Trump himself had gone ashen.
9% : In the wake of Trump's rambling tale about Willie Brown shit-talking Kamala Harris while they were both about to die on a helicopter that had to make an emergency landing, at some point in the undefined past in which Trump "knew Willie Brown very well," there has been a lot of attempted fact-checking of this incident.
7% : " Since the story has blown up about Trump being mistaken about his helicopter ride with Willie Brown, Trump has been spiraling a bit, at least according to the Times' Maggie Haberman.

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