“For weeks on Capitol Hill, there had been quiet murmurs about the health of an ailing veteran House Republican, Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL), and whether he would be able to serve out the duration of his term because of what was rumored to be a grave diagnosis,” the New York Times reports.
“On Monday, at a news conference called to discuss the Kennedy Center, President Trump aired the quiet part out loud, claiming credit for having saved Mr. Dunn’s life in an unusual and at times uncomfortable exchange that publicly laid out the congressman’s formerly private prognosis in new detail.”
Said Trump: “Number one, it was bad because I liked him. Number two, it was bad because I needed his vote. I did it for him first and the vote second. But it was a close second.”
Politico: Trump says Neal Dunn would’ve been “dead by June” absent surgery.
