Friday, August 09, 2024

Follow The Drool From Grandpa’s Mouth

1989, three executives from Trump's casinos and two crew members were killed in a helicopter crash en route to Atlantic City. The chopper crashed in woodlands near the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. 
A United Press International news wire published about the crash reported that sources said that Trump was supposed to be on the helicopter himself but at the last minute backed out. The same statement was also published by Newsday and on the cover of the New York Daily News. 
One Trump Organization spokesman, Dan Klores, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that Trump "doesn't want to talk about it, but he was going to go to Atlantic City and he did change his mind." < Barbara Res, who was working for the Trump Organization at the time of the crash, told MSNBC on Tuesday that Trump's story about almost being on the deadly helicopter flight was a total fabrication. 
"I'm going to tell you a little story," Res told network host Ari Melber as she explained the deadly crash. "It was a horror. It was a horror for everybody." 
Res went on to say that it wasn't long before Trump began "putting out the word that he was supposed to be on that plane or that helicopter, and he didn't at the last minute, he got pulled off the plane, in other words, he'd be dead now." 
The former Trump executive declared that his claim was a "total, total lie." She compared the made-up story to Trump claiming on Monday that he was at Ground Zero helping first responders immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The helicopter story is from 1989. The Newsweek article is from 2019. There was a helicopter ride with Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom. Trump was POTUS, making an aerial survey of the fire damage (caused by not raking the forest floor, IIRC). But it sounds so much better this way, doesn’t it?

Lies and exaggeration are Trump’s bread and butter. This matter really isn’t complicated. This lie has roots in 1989. It then gets tangled up in Trump’s feeble brain with an actual helicopter ride in 2019. And here we are 5 years later, with the Lie that never ends. It just goes on and on, my friends. Some people started saying it, not knowing what it was; and they’ll continue saying it forever just because… (The rubes are not the audience here, are they?)
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle after the news conference, Willie Brown, who dated Harris years ago in San Francisco, denied multiple aspects of Trump's account. “You would have known if I had gone down on a helicopter with Trump,” he said, according to the newspaper. “I’ve never been on a helicopter with Trump.”
And Trump’s campaign staff dutifully follows the leader:
During Thursday's news conference, Trump also claimed that Willie Brown told him “terrible things about” Harris and that Brown was “not a fan of hers very much at that point.” 
Brown disputed having spoken poorly about Harris in remarks to the Chronicle. 
“No, not accurate at all,” he told the newspaper. 
Willie Brown didn’t respond to requests for comment from NBC News. 
Reached for comment by NBC News, Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesperson, didn’t address questions about whether Trump had confused the two California Democrats, responding, "Slick Willie has told some interesting stories about Kamala Harris."
Hell, even Maggie Haberman is tweeting it; "Slick Willie" has some stories? The same can be said of Trump. The difference is, Willie Brown isn’t running for President.
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