Trump claims Neal Dunn ‘would be dead by June,’ Mike Johnson reacts to private diagnosis disclosure

From USA TODAY.

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President Donald Trump revealed a Republican congressman’s terminal diagnosis during a news conference, saying the retiring lawmaker would have been "dead by June" but for an intervention by White House doctors.

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