NBC’s Ali Vitali spoke with Barbara Res, the former executive vice-president of the Trump Organization, about Donald Trump’s retelling of a helicopter incident he was involved in and her own experience as a passenger on that helicopter.
Barbara Res, the Trump Organization's former executive vice president of construction and development, on Saturday disputed former President Donald Trump's account that he rode with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown in a helicopter that had to make an emergency landing in the 1990s. 'We were working on a very big project in California,' Res told NBC News' Ali Vitali on MSNBC, adding, 'We were working with local politicians and state politicians.
wanted to be in with Willie, because Willie was an important guy. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story, but on Friday the former president responded to a New York Times account of the helicopter story, saying, “There were ‘Logs,’ Maintenance Records, and Witnesses. There was also a story on 'Willie and Me.'” Shortly after the former president's press conference on Thursday, Brown pushed back on Trump's story.
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