UTAH – Bob Bennett, a former Republican senator from Utah who died earlier this month after suffering with pancreatic cancer , spent his final days of life reaching out to Muslims at his hospital and apologizing for Donald Trump.

He reportedly asked his wife and his son Jim from his deathbed, “Are there any Muslims in the hospital?”

His intent, according to his wife and son, was to soothe any ruffled feathers they may have had over Trump’s comments from the campaign trail about Muslims. 

Trump, at one point, issued a campaign promise to ban all Muslims from entering the country for a temporary period in order to allow border and security officials to better address terrorism risks facing the nation, and control the threats crossing into America.

Bennett, apparently, found such views and statements abhorrent.

“I’d love to go up to every single one of [the Muslims] to thank them for being in this country and apologize to them on behalf of the Republican Party for Donald Trump,” he reportedly said, according to his wife and son.

His wife said he also spent time apologizing to Muslims on behalf of the GOP.

“He would go to people with the hijab and tell them he was glad they were in America and they were welcome here,” she said, the Daily Beast reported. “He wanted to apologize on behalf of the Republican Party.”

The tea party’s choice, Mike Lee, beat Bennett in the 2010 primary race for Senate. Bennett died from cancer of the pancreas and suffered paralysis from a stroke in his final days.

Jim said that his father became interested in Islam after 9/11, citing a desire to be informed about the religion while making policy decisions in the wake of terrorist attacks.

“He spent a lot of time studying Islam and wanting to be informed enough to that he wouldn’t be making decisions on the floor of the Senate ignorantly,” Jim said.

Bennett also took issue with Trump’s comments related to immigration, considering the former Senator’s support for comprehensive immigration reform was a contributing factor in his 2010 defeat.

“He felt like immigration required a comprehensive solution,” Jim said of his father, “And that didn’t go over well with Utah delegates who just thought that building a big wall, in a Donald Trump fashion, was the only way to go.”

Jim Bennett told the story about his father’s comments about Muslims at both memorial services for his father, telling NBC News he “was so grateful to be able to see that demonstration of integrity when there were so many other things that could have been front of mind for him during that time.”

“I was just very proud of him,” Jim said. “It just demonstrated the integrity of my father wasn’t just a public front, that even in personal moments of his last days, this was something that was of deep concern to him, and that he was thinking of other people before he was thinking of himself.”