Former President Donald Trump recalled his friendship with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over the weekend while discussing Abe’s assassination last summer.
Trump made the remarks during an interview on Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin” with host Mark Levin when Levin noted how close the two men were and that they had “a lot of correspondence between” them.
“He was a handsome man. He was a dignified man. He loved his country,” Trump said. “He was somebody I just got along with great, he loved golf. We played golf. He — we played with Ernie Ells in this country was a big great golfer, and somebody respected highly.”
“Abe loved Japan, and he loved the people. And he respected the United States,” Trump said. “I dealt with Abe, and I got to know him really well. And he was high quality. I think he was going to reemerge.”
Trump said that it was a “very sad day” in his life when Abe was assassinated .
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MARK LEVIN: Mr. President, the horrific tragedy in Japan, where Abe was assassinated with a handmade gun. He was a great friend of the United States and apparently was a very, very close friend of yours.
You have a lot of correspondence between the two of you tell us about him.
DONALD TRUMP: So, he was a handsome guy, who’s the first person to call me I want to meet I want to meet we actually met before I was at the White House, which in theory isn’t appropriate. They say because you know, somebody else is running the country. You’re not supposed to.
We didn’t know that. But he just wanted to meet. He was already on the plane.
He literally — we said, you know, maybe you could wait a couple of weeks. But he was already on the plane. I got to know him very early.
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