President Joe Biden held a phone call with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and former President Donald Trump has been talking to the family of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about attending Abe’s funeral.
Abe, 67, was assassinated on Friday during an election campaign speech in Nara, Japan, by a man with a handmade gun. Abe’s death was officially declared hours later.
Biden called Kishida over the phone on Friday “to express his outrage, sadness, and deep condolences on the tragic and violent shooting death of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo,” according to a White House readout of the call….