Trump Talked About His Good Relationship With Kim Jong-Un Throughout His 2024 Announcement

• Trump talked about Kim Jong-Un throughout his 2024 announcement for president.
• The previous president was speaking about his relationships with international leaders when he was in workplace.
• Trump is underneath investigation for holding on to Kim Jong Un’s letters, amongst different categorized paperwork, after his presidency.

In the course of the launch of his 2024 presidential marketing campaign Tuesday night time, former President Donald Trump determined to nod to his relationship with North Korean chief Kim Jong Un, whose letters the Nationwide Information Administration was asking for from Trump for months earlier than he returned them in January 2022.

“China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea had been in test and… they revered the USA and fairly actually, they revered me,” Trump mentioned throughout the onset of his speech.

He later continued: “[I] knew them effectively… North Korea had not launched a single long-range missile since my summit with Chairman Kim Jong Un almost three years earlier than we developed a relationship, and that is a superb factor. Not a foul factor. It is a good factor. Superb factor, truly.”

Whereas Trump was president, Kim penned Trump letters that the previous president described as “love letters.”

After he left workplace, Trump held on to the letters — allegedly telling aides that the highest secret letter, together with different categorized documents were “mine” — till they had been turned over to the National Archives in January.

It was later revealed that, regardless of being conscious that he was not allowed to share them resulting from their categorized nature, Trump allowed journalist Bob Woodward to look at them.

Following the August 8 raid on his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Seaside, Florida, the FBI continues to research whether or not Trump broke three federal legal guidelines, together with the Espionage Act, by taking categorized paperwork to his Florida residence.