Trump spoke of harrowing helicopter ride, emergency landing with Willie Brown. Brown says it didn't happen

GOP nominee and former President Donald Trump mixed up two prominent politicians from California when he told a harrowing tale of almost crashing in a helicopter.

During a meandering press conference Thursday, Trump recalled riding as a passenger in the helicopter with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown when it was forced to make an emergency landing. He was responding to a question about a relationship between Brown and Vice President Kamala Harris three decades ago.

But Brown has never shared a helicopter with Trump, the former mayor said. Instead, it was former California Gov. Jerry Brown who rode with Trump in a helicopter in 2018 to survey wildfire damage, and no emergency landing was reported.