Posted on 07/09/2022 3:23:54 AM PDT by conservative98
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively here that he is considering attending the funeral of the assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and that he is communicating with Abe’s family about the matter.
“We’re going to see how it goes,” Trump said when asked if he would attend Abe’s funeral. “We’re talking to their family. We love the family. His wife is a phenomenal woman. He is so loved in Japan I can imagine that is going to be an incredible celebration of life. He was just very special. Every aspect of that man was just very special. You know he was the first person I saw? Do you remember he came early? He came right after the election—he was the first person I saw. But we had a special relationship. We’re going to see about that, we’re talking about that right now.”
Trump’s comments came during an exclusive interview backstage after an event he hosted with the GOP nominees for U.S. Senate and for governor here in Nevada, former Attorney General Adam Laxalt and Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo. Trump spoke for close to an hour to a packed ballroom at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip Friday night after Laxalt, Lombardo, and several local and national law enforcement personnel hosted a law-and-order-focused panel.
Trump and Abe were the closest of friends during Trump’s time in the White House and Abe’s time as Prime Minister. Perhaps there was no other world leader with whom Trump was as close
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Re: consumption tax - of the Japanese I work with, that’s the big one for them.
didn’t read like he said he was?
Pedo Joe will NOT allow Trump to go......he will BLACKMAIL JAPAN and Withhold something valuable that Japan would want or need.
Prophets are rarely appreciated during their lifetime. It’s only when people looked back and realized how right they were and how hard they fought.
Abe was loved here in the US.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220709_06/
Local coverage by NHK on the assassination.
Interesting. Note the way that only the local cops are mentioned in the protection detail.
And the locals weren’t apprised until the night before..?
No other police, say a branch from Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police, were assigned to the duty?
That reads like a non-denial denial to me.
Something really smells here.
The US is no longer a republic.
I imagine that was pretty unthinkable, too.
Aaaaah diplomacy. At what point do common sense and reason overcome the diplomatic plague?
Biden should appoint Donald Trump as the American official representative at the Abe funeral.
Abe was campaigning. Was he still politically active in an elective office? What was he campaigning for?
Yes, they put out a rather nice statement yesterday.
Been perusing more of the Japanese English language enemedia.
Looks like the line is to blame the locals.
No mention of any other security.
No interest in knowing whether security protocols previously in place were changed or disregarded on this occasion.
Wow.
Now I’m really thinking this was Japan’s Deep State.
Note to the Japanese public: If your Deep State just whacked your former PM, none of you are safe. Not from the ChiComs, not from your own government.
Maybe not a louse , but close to it . So were his daddy and grandads .
I think Abe was also the PM, early on, who ended up getting shoved off on The Hyena because he wasn’t in on the doped-Joe pResidency.
If Trump is thinking about going, it’s because he’s calculating his chances of getting back.
Possibly, especially when we have Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan.
Yes. Official message of condolence and Biden went to the Japanese embassy and signed the condolence book.
Imagine both Trump and SloJoe there and Trump finds a way to engage SloJoe in a conversation. That would be a scene, Trump talking eloquently and SloJoe mumbling incoherently, quite the contrast right in the liberal’s faces.
The number one job of SloJoe’s protection detail would be to keep him away from Trump at all costs.
Has the WH even acknowledged Abe’s death yet???
Yes
The problem is that Japan also has a Deep State.
It might very well be responsible for murdering Abe.
And Japan’s Deep State doesn’t love Trump any more than ours does.
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My money is on Communist China assassinating Abe.
Exactly.
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