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White House adviser suffers heart attack

Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, a staunch defender of US President Donald Trump’s tough stance on global trade, is in a good condition at a Washington-area hospital, after suffering a heart attack.

Trump announced Mr Kudlow’s heart attack in a tweet sent minutes before he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.

“Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center,” Trump said on Twitter, minutes before he was scheduled to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.

A longtime television commentator, Mr Kudlow, 70, was hired by Trump in March to replace Gary Cohn as director of the National Economic Council.

Mr Kudlow joined Mr Trump at the Group of Seven summit in Quebec on Friday and Saturday. He did several media interviews on Sunday to vigorously defend Mr Trump after the President’s trade spat with summit host Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Mr Kudlow said: “[Mr Trudeau] really kind of stabbed us in the back.”

Mr Kudlow, a Republican who served as an economic adviser to former president Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and also worked on Wall Street, is an ardent advocate of “supply side” economic policies that focus on cutting taxes and reducing regulations.

He has acknowledged ups and downs in his life, having been addicted to drugs and alcohol before getting sober more than 20 years ago.

-AAP

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