WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump congratulated the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots on Wednesday, a normally joyous White House ritual marred by the prison suicide hours earlier of former teammate Aaron Hernandez.
Trump hosted the five-time champions on the South Lawn and declared that “no team has been good this long.”
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