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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President Trump on the assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: “That was a very sad day in my life.” pic.twitter.com/nTS5GeLuYK

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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.

He was a handsome man. He was a dignified man. He loved his country.

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.

And when I went to Japan, it was Matsuyama; Matsuyama had, you know, is the great Japanese champion who won the Masters is great player. And I got there I saw my sponsor, you know, rated one of the top couple in the world. Big strong guy and I said, we are playing with him.

This is my honor. To have him play with us. And then I went up to Matsuyama where he drops his putter he’s practicing putting on before we got there.

Thousands of presses, by the way, thousands of presses. You never saw anything like it. Michael Jackson used to tell me that probably has some good stuff on Michael to Michael Jackson used to tell me that and say, Michael, is it always this way?

Would God he’d say, no, no, Japan has worse meaning for the paparazzi thousands, But I walk into the green I shake his hand drops his Matsuyama that’s very beautiful, the customer and everything else. Little funny sir only forgot people because most people wouldn’t. You know, really on his head.

He’s a very strong person, very strong physically for it’s about long. And so, to hit the ball long. So, I’m up there and thousands of photographers I’m on the first tee hitting a ball.

And I take a swing and hit it perfectly down the middle beautiful drive right down the middle pretty long by any standard, the longest per age, OK, but pretty long. And everybody was very impressed. And then this guy gets up.

And he ripped it. And his ball was starting to get airborne as it reached. And I said that’s a very, but we had a great time and Abe loved it.

But Abe loved Japan, and he loved the people. And he respected the United States. And we had a very unfair trade deal with Japan.

They took advantage of us like everybody, everybody does, OK. There wasn’t a country where we had a fair deal. South Korea was horrible.

So, many. I changed the South Korea deal. I changed it Japan changed.

But I dealt with Abe, and I got to know him really well. And he was high quality. I think he was going to reemerge.

You know, he actually left because he was quite sick. But he recovered. And I think it was actually going to reemerge.

But think of it, they barely have a gun in the whole country. And this crazy man made a gun. And it was a big gun too.

And Abe was assassinated. And that was a very sad day in my life. Because of all of the leaders.

You know, I hate to say this, because I got along with a lot of them. But I really maybe had the best relationship with IBM, Japan. He was willing to redo the trade deals, he really had no choice because I said, look, either you do it or we’re not going to do business.

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Another state attorney in Florida, who is backed by Democrat megadonor George Soros, appears to be on the verge of being removed from office by Governor Ron DeSantis.

Monique H. Worrell, the state attorney for Florida’s 9th Judicial Circuit, said at the Marion County NAACP Freedom Fund late last week that she anticipates that DeSantis is going to remove her from office as soon as this week.

DeSantis slammed Worrell earlier this year for failing to keep Keith Moses, 19, off the streets. Moses is accused of shooting five people, murdering three, including 9-year-old T’yonna Major, 38-year-old Nathacha Augustin and 24-year-old reporter Dylan Lyons of Spectrum News 13.

Moses had been arrested multiple times for felonious crimes when he was a minor, most of which happened before Worrell was sworn into office at the start of 2021.

However, one arrest did happen under Worrell when Moses was arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession, according to WESH 2. Ultimately Moses was not prosecuted due to the amount of the substance that was found which would be the end of the story — except a gun was found.

“I cannot believe they let this guy – you have to hold people accountable,” DeSantis said. “This idea – and, I know the district attorney, state attorney in Orlando thinks that you don’t prosecute people and that’s the way that you somehow have better communities – that does not work.”

“And you have these people when they’ve had multiple arrests, multiple times where they could be held accountable, and you keep cycling them out into the community, you are increasing the chances that something bad will happen,” DeSantis added.

DeSantis is the only governor in the U.S. who has ever removed a Soros-backed prosecutor from power.

DeSantis sent the police to remove woke State Attorney Andrew Warren of the 13th Judicial Circuit from office this week back in early August.

“State Attorneys have a duty to prosecute crimes as defined in Florida law, not to pick and choose which laws to enforce based on his personal agenda,” DeSantis said in a statement. “It is my duty to hold Florida’s elected officials to the highest standards for the people of Florida. I have the utmost trust that Judge Susan Lopez will lead the office through this transition and faithfully uphold the rule of law.”

In the Executive Order suspending Warren from office, DeSantis ordered, “As of the signing of this Executive Order, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by other law enforcement agencies as necessary, is requested to: (i) assist in the immediate transition of Andrew Warren from the Office of the State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit of Florida, with access only to retrieve his personal belongings; and (ii) ensure that no files, papers, documents, notes, records, computers, or removable storage media are removed from the Office of the State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit of Florida by Andrew Warren or any of his staff.”