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Ronny Jackson, left, then White House physician, at the White House in 2017. (Jabin Botsford/The Post)

White House medical unit under Trump and Obama flouted rules, improperly dispensed drugs, reports find

It passed out drugs without prescriptions, gave free care to ineligible staffers, and used aliases to disguise those patients’ identities, four former medical unit employees said. Many issues trace to Ronny Jackson, Donald Trump’s personal physician and now a Republican congressman, reports and the ex-staffers say.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Chelyabinsk, Russia, just as the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny was being announced. (AFP/Getty Images)

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