General Discussion

After the speaker chided the president about the non-public information, Johnson said: “Long story short, the president called him to encourage him and thank him. And the president mentioned in the course of conversation, ‘You know, I ought to get my doctors involved.’ And they did, and within a number of hours, they took him to Walter Reed, emergency surgery.”

“[Johnson] called to say that he was terminal, really bad heart, there’s nothing they can do,” Trump continued the story. “I said, ‘That’s bad.’ Number one, it was bad because I liked him. Number two, it was bad because I needed his vote.

“And then I realized I have doctors in the White House, and White House doctors are incredible and they’ve helped me with other people. They’re helping me with people right now, people that are very sick — like, they’re miracle workers,” he said.

“And I said, ‘I have to call them.’ And I called the two doctors, they’re both great, and they immediately went over to see the congressman, and he was on the operating table like two hours later, and it was a long operation.”

“It was a long operation. They gave him more stents and more everything,” Trump said, adding that Dunn has had “a new lease on life. He has more energy than a man half his age.”

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