Willie Brown Threatens To Sue Trump If He 'Keeps It Up' With Wild Helicopter Story

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown (D) isn’t ruling out legal action against Donald Trump after the GOP presidential nominee shared a bonkers story that involved him and Brown almost experiencing a helicopter crash .

Brown, whom Trump named in the wild tale at a rambling press conference earlier this month, has disputed the former president’s claims that he joined him in a helicopter and denied that he told Trump “ terrible things ” about Vice President Kamala Harris , whom Brown dated in the mid-1990s.

“If he keeps it up, at some point, I’m going to give him a taste of his own conduct,” Brown told CBS News on Friday, adding that “somebody has got to make sure” Trump “stops lying.”

The former San Francisco mayor also brought up Trump threatening to sue The New York Times over its coverage of the helicopter story.

In a separate Times report , Trump spoke with the outlet’s Maggie Haberman, saying he “vehemently maintained” that he was in the helicopter with Brown when they experienced an emergency landing, despite Brown’s denial, and that he was “probably going to sue” the Times.

“If he sues The New York Times for printing that I said he lied, I’m going to sue him,” Brown told CBS News.

HuffPost has reached out to the Trump campaign, which was not immediately available for comment.

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown (D) speaks outside John's Grill in San Francisco, on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. Brown recently threatened to sue Donald Trump over the GOP presidential nominee bringing up a wild helicopter story that involves him.

The update from Brown comes after Nate Holden, a former Los Angeles City Council member who served as a California state senator, told Politico that he believes Trump confused him with the former San Francisco mayor.

The former president hasn’t shared the helicopter story since Politico published its report earlier this month.

Holden, in a phone call with the Times on Saturday, said Trump should be “held accountable” if he’s “propagating a lie.”

“I’m 95 years old, and Willie is 90, and he made the assumption we wouldn’t be here anymore, and nobody would challenge it,” the former councilman said. “Well, we’re alive and well.”

On Saturday, Brown spoke with reporters in San Francisco about Trump’s claims and acknowledged that it’d “be bad” for his reputation if he was on a chopper with Trump.

“That’s a bad place to be, particularly with a guy who’s been convicted 34 times,” Brown said, according to San Francisco’s KRON-TV .

“No one knows why he chose a helicopter — it was the most unexpected place to put me,” he added.