Japan's Abe Declines to Say If He Backed Trump for Nobel Prize

[left-of-center2012]

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declined to say whether he nominated Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, while praising the U.S. President for “decisive” efforts to resolve the problems of a nuclear-armed North Korea.

Abe, who has worked hard to build a personal rapport with Trump, walked a fine line during a parliamentary committee meeting Monday when asked about Trump’s claim from Friday that the Japanese leader had put his name forward for the prize.

“I am not saying it’s not true,” he told an opposition lawmaker.

In a speech on border security in the White House’s Rose Garden on Friday, Trump said Abe had shown him a copy of a five-page letter he sent to “the people who give out a thing called the Nobel Prize.” The president was responding to a question on progress made since last year’s historic summit with North Korea.

The Asahi newspaper of Japan said the (Nobel Peace Prize) nomination had been made after a request from the U.S.
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Trump: "Please nominate me for the Nobel Peace Prize. Please! Please!"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-18/japan-s-abe-declines-to-say-if-he-backed-trump-for-nobel-prize?srnd=politics-vp

[femmocrat]

1. So typical of trump.

Abe is probably mortified and too polite to call it a big fat lie.

[duforsure]

2. trump could be lying trying to pressure Abe into doing it

So he can claim others are doing it, and if he refuses he'll then threaten him by doing something to him and Japan. That's his pattern and tactics he uses often trying to get someone to do as he demands, or else.

[spanone]

3. We'll take that as a 'yes'.

[mitch96]

4. "Abe declined to say "

Political avoidance...
"I can not confirm or deny whether I did or did not do so as to advance my political standing with the orange shit stain"... or something like that.. eh?
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[Sneederbunk]

5. Abe thought it was for Nobel Piece of Work Prize.