Politico:

ABOUT THAT HELICOPTER STORY — Trump also claimed that he once had a near-death experience on a helicopter with former San Francisco Mayor WILLIE BROWN, and that Brown — who dated Harris for about a year in the 1990s — had told him “terrible things” about Harris on the flight.

But it appears that Trump confused Willie Brown with JERRY BROWN, the former governor of California, that there was no real danger and that Brown never said anything to him about Harris.

But this story did surface a Trump-Harris connection that we’d never heard about. In debunking the Trump tale yesterday, Willie Brown told the San Francisco Chronicle that Trump once sent his plane to Boston to fly Brown to New York for a meeting with Trump, but Trump wasn’t aboard the plane and the flight was uneventful. In poking around about that story, we ran across an account of the 1994 trip in Dan Morain’s Harris biography, “Kamala’s Way.”

Morain backs up Brown’s version but he adds one surprising detail not in the SF Chronicle: Harris was with Brown in Boston at the time, and she traveled with him aboard Trump’s plane to New York.

“Trump wanted to discuss a hotel project he had in mind for Los Angeles and sent his jet to Boston to fly Brown and his friends, Harris included, to New York City,” Morain reports. “The jet was gilded, had valuable paintings on its cabin walls, and had notes left for Trump by his then wife, MARLA MAPLES. Brown and Trump had lunch at the Plaza Hotel. The Los Angeles deal never materialized. Trump and Harris likely did not meet.”