Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, had a message for former President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon: Stay my title out of your teeth or get sued.
He stood with his lifelong lawyer, Joe Cotchett, on a street in downtown San Francisco, outside John’s Grill, the Saturday position on Brown’s midday movement, and told reporters that he would reimburse Trump for defamation and defamation if he repeated his created helicopter story one more time.
” He’s always brought a complaint in his existence”, Cotchett said of Brown. ” But you know who’s pushing him to it? A guy by the name of Trump”.
Since Trump claimed at a press conference on August 8 that he had almost died while taking a helicopter ride with Brown, the pair have been orally sparring.
Trump also said that Brown, who dated Vice President Kamala Harris in 1994 and 1995, said “terrible stuff” about Harris only before they nearly plummeted to their deaths.
” He was never a fan of hers very much, at that point”, Trump said.
Brown then immediately called the account a rest, claiming that he had never traveled with Trump in a helicopter and that he had never told him disparaging points about Harris. He had already told the media before that he had been praying for her to beat the man he had not rode in a plane.
Trump threatened to sue The New York Times for fabricating the plane history in response to repeated assertions made on his social media platform Truth Social. ” Now Willie Brown does n’t remember”? Trump wrote.
Previous Los Angeles City Council member and state lawmaker Nate Holden claimed he had a rough helicopter ride with Trump in 1990 and that he had gotten confused with Brown because of the confusion. Both California officials are Black.
Trump has never commented on the plane incident since Holden has come forth. However, Brown and Cotchett claimed they wanted to keep him silent.
When asked if he wanted a letter of apology from Trump, Brown said he would prefer not to learn from him at all.
” No, I do n’t want his apology”, Brown said. ” I do n’t want him to mention my name”.
When asked for comment, a Trump spokesman referred to the former mayor’s threat to sue the Times but did not handle what Brown said.
Holden on Saturday applauded Brown’s constitutional risk.
” If he’s propagating a lie, he should be held accountable”, Holden said of Trump in a phone interview Saturday from his home in Los Angeles. ” I’m 95 years old, and Willie is 90, and he made the assumption we would n’t be here anymore, and nobody would challenge it. Well, we’re dead and well”.
