Abe ‘was a great man,’ Trump says as he meets his protégé

US President Donald Trump described former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe as a “great man” as he met his protégé Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s new prime minister. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, was shot with a homemade gun while making a speech in 2022. The trial of the alleged murderer opened the same day as Trump met his Japanese counterpart.