Donald
Trump
, former United States President, said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
is doing a “terrific job” and that he had a great relationship with Modi. He
was speaking in an exclusive interview to NDTV. It is speculated that Trump might
be preparing for another run for the presidential seat in 2024.

“I’ve had a
great relationship to India and to Prime Minister Modi. We were we’ve been friends.
And I think he’s a great guy and doing a terrific job. It’s not an easy job he’s
got. So but we’ve known each other a long time. Good man,” Trump said.

On being
asked if he was going to run, Donald Trump said, “Everyone wants me to run, I
am leading in the polls
…I will make a decision in the very near future, I
suspect. Speculation around Donald Trump running for polls again has remained
since he demitted office. Since then, Trump has been travelling the length and
breadth of the United States giving his support to proxy candidates in local
elections. Some of his proxies have made it to office.

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Asked what
was his priority if he runs for office again, and Trump said that he is going
to ensure that the United States becomes energy independent. “…We’re going to
be energy independent, we’re going to have a great economy, roaring economy
again, which we don’t have right now,” he said.

“We’ve
never had an economy, like the one the economy that I had. But we’ll bring back
energy independence, and we will do things we haven’t been able to do in the
last two years,” the former president added.

While Trump
seems to be setting the ground for his next presidential run, he is also under
the scanner of the US Department of Justice. The DOJ is probing Trump for
allegedly taking secret government documents home and not returning them while
demitting office.

Last month,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), US’ premier sleuthing agency, raided
Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida residence Mar-a-Lago and recovered material which
the US government says should not have been with Donald Trump after his term in
office ended.