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July 13, 2017
Trump's new favorite defender
Sebastian Gorka, a strategist for Steve Bannon at the White House, has emerged as one of President Trump's favorite cable news defenders, Axios' Jonathan Swan reports.
- Trump told West Wing staff yesterday: "Did you see Gorka? So great, I mean really, truly great."
- Trump's favorite line: Gorka telling CNN host Alisyn Camerota that "more people watch Nick at Nite cartoons than CNN today."
- Gorka's favorite line, cooked up by another Bannon aide: "Fake news industrial complex."
Go deeper: Swan goes inside recent Gorka highlights and gives a look into Trump's thinking.
What you missed
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1 grim chart
From Axios' Shane Savitsky and Andrew Witherspoon: "2.2 billion people — one-third of the world's population — are obese or overweight, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine."
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