A plane carrying former President Donald Trump reportedly made an emergency landing in Billings, Montana Friday afternoon after it was diverted due to a mechanical issue.
From Billings, Trump took a private jet to Bozeman, where he’s holding a Friday night campaign rally, reported Helena’s NBC affiliate KTVH.
It’s unclear what sort of malfunction forced the landing in Billings. The Montana cities are separated by roughly 140 miles.
Trump posted a video on Truth Social from inside a plane that appeared to be his personal jet. The 78-year-old Republican candidate said he was in “beautiful” Montana, but didn’t mention the airplane incident.
There was also no mention of whether his 8 p.m. rally would be delayed because of the incident.
Trump is slated to appear Friday with U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, who’s challenging Democrat Jon Tester in a hotly contested race that could decide which way the Senate goes in the November election.
The campaign trail has been turbulent for Trump, who was shot in the ear during a rally in Pennsylvania last month.
A week later, he learned his competition in the race would be Vice President Kamala Harris rather than 81-year-old incumbent President Joe Biden, who he was leading in polls. New polling shows Harris, 59, pulling slightly past Trump.
The former president also withstood heavy media criticism Friday after telling a seemingly fake story about an emergency landing involving a helicopter he was in with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Newsom and Brown — the latter of whom dated Kamala Harris in the 1990s — both shot down the Republican nominee’s claim that any such incident occurred. There’s also no record of the alleged scare.
