Pompeo on Abe: 'He was the perfect partner for the United States'

Following Thursday's assassination of Shinzo Abe, world leaders and politicians mourned the loss of the former Japanese Prime Minister, who resigned from office in 2020.

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Pompeo had known Abe since Pompeo's time in Congress and told Fox News Digital, "It's both heartbreaking and dangerous to have a leader, a world leader, assassinated while he is out making his case to the people of Japan. He's out campaigning. He was exercising his political rights. It's something that we all ought to be mindful of in terms of political violence."  

Abe was assassinated while campaigning in the Nara prefecture for his center-right Liberal Democratic Party ahead of Sunday's election for the country's upper house of parliament.