WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump said Monday that Florida GOP Rep. Neal Dunn at a terminal diagnosis and was supposed to be dead by June as a result of a health problem.
“Okay, that wasn’t public,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said in response to Trump’s remarks at the Kennedy Center Board meeting.
Johnson told donors during a Florida retreat that Dunn was terminally ill, according to the Axios news outlet.
According to Trump, he intervened in Dunn’s medical care. The state of Dunn’s health is not known.
The care that Trump helped get Dunn a “new lease on life.”
The conversation about Dunn’s health came up when Trump and Johnson talked about how the house speaker had a very narrow majority and he could only afford to lose two votes.
“Number One, it was bad because I liked [Dunn],” Trump said after saying he had a terminal illness. “Number Two, it’s bad because I needed his vote.”
Trump said after he learned Dunn had a terminal diagnosis, he referred him to Walter Reed where he got emergency surgery.
“It was a long operation,” the president said. “They gave him more stents and more everything that you can have.”
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Johnson said that after Dunn got the surgery, he acted 30 years younger.