President Donald Trump has promised that he is going to publicly release classified documents and files that are related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. This is proof that during his second term, Trump is not holding back. He’s going the distance and doing everything he promised and then some. Maybe we’ll finally get definitive answers on what went down with JFK? Was there a second shooter? Was it all planned by the CIA in retaliation for the Bay of Pigs debacle? I hope we find out.
“As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents,” he said to the crowd while delivering the speech. “And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kenedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
According to the New York Post, that last line ended up getting the biggest round of applause of the night.
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This has caused some to fear that releasing these documents might put an even bigger target on his back than the one he already had and could result in his life being threatened or worse, terminated.
Here’s more from The Western Journal:
In 2017, a deadline set under the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act hit which required the government to release all files of the JFK assassination. Trump decided against it, based in no small part on then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo, later the secretary of state. Instead, he pushed the release of all the documents off to October 2021. President Joe Biden again punted on that deadline.
Trump stated at the time that he put off the release of the documents because “an undisclosed amount of material will remain under wraps because the potential harm to U.S. national security or foreign affairs is ‘of such gravity the it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.’”
It’s interesting that this came 55 years after JFK’s assassination and a solid 27 years after Oliver Stone’s fever-dream film “JFK.” If anything in those files could possibly more kooky and risible than what was posited that film — which strongly suggested, in its inchoate manner, that an ad hoc alliance between closeted gays, the mafia, and what we’d come to call the deep state had been responsible for killing Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 — then those documents should have been declassified decades ago.
President Trump is right to release documents like this because we the people deserve to know the full story behind these assassinations. And yes, it does go a long, long way toward reestablishing transparency, something the Biden administration apparently didn’t believe in.
That being said, it’s worth noting that the documents could shed light on shady activity by the CIA. As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during an August interview with Tucker Carlson, “More than 60 years after my uncle’s death … none of the people who were implicated in that crime are alive now. And the last ones have died off in the last year or two. And so, it clearly is to protect the [CIA]. And that’s wrong.
“It’s just wrong,” Kennedy told Carlson. “It’s wrong for Democrats, and it’s wrong for Republicans … I was astonished that Trump didn’t declassify them because he promised to during the [2016] campaign.”