Former President Trump revealed that he nearly crashed a helicopter with Willie Brown and that the former San Francisco mayor said “horrible things” about Trump's Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris.

That's wrong and a mistake, Brown says.

Republican presidential nominee Trump held a rambling 65-minute news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday in which he insulted Harris, reiterated false and misleading claims and spoke in apocalyptic terms about the United States.

He also told a story about a time he and Brown faced danger on a helicopter ride together.

“I knew Willie Brown very well. In fact, I was in a helicopter crash with him. I thought this might be the end,” Trump said.

“We were in a helicopter together, heading somewhere, and there was an emergency landing,” he said. “It was not a fun landing. Willie was a little concerned. So I know him pretty well. I haven't seen him for years, but he said some horrible things to me. [Kamala Harris].”

Brown said Trump's claims are not true.

“I've never done business with Donald Trump, let's start with that,” Brown told a Bay Area TV station. Cron“And secondly, I don't want to be in the same helicopter as him.”

He also denied that he had made any insulting remarks to Trump about Harris.

“That's just as accurate as all the other factors you're asking me about,” Brown said. San Francisco Chronicle“No, that's not accurate at all.”

“I can't imagine thinking anything negative about Kamala Harris. She's a long-time good friend, a very beautiful woman, very smart and, electorally speaking, she's been very successful,” Brown told KRON.

Brown and Harris dated when they were first starting out in San Francisco in the 1990s, a relationship that led to backlash from critics who said Brown benefited politically from it.

Brown did not immediately respond to The Times' request for comment Thursday evening.