President Trump Orders Historic Transparency: JFK, RFK, and MLK Files to be Declassified
“This is a big one. A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. Everything will be revealed.” –President Trump pic.twitter.com/iYfF7huHj9
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 23, 2025
This probably won’t actually happen.
But he did sign the order and gave the pen to RFK Jr.
Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades.
The executive order the president signed on Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy and the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. The order is among a flurry of executive actions Trump has quickly taken the first week of his second term.
“More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, Senator Robert F Kennedy, and the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, the federal government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events,” the executive order stated.
“Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay,” it added.
He is saying “ALL.”
But it’s not clear how much they will be allowed to redact. If they release everything and it’s fully redacted, that won’t really mean anything at all.
I don’t think there is any way that documents implicating the CIA in the assassination will be allowed to be released.
Speaking to reporters, Trump said: “Everything will be revealed.”
“That’s a big one,” he added as he signed the order.
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Trump has nominated Kennedy’s nephew, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to be the health secretary in his new administration. Kennedy, whose father, Robert F Kennedy, was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968 while running for president, has said he is not convinced that a lone gunman was solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, John F Kennedy, in 1963.
He’s said a lot more than that.
He says the CIA did it and he’s sure of that.
The order directs the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to develop a plan within 15 days to declassify the remaining John F Kennedy records, and within 45 days for the other two cases. It was not clear when the records would actually be released.
He should have just ordered them to immediately dump all of it in 24 hours.
We might get something interesting. Last time, when Trump tried to release all the files and was blocked by CIA director Mike Pompeo, an alleged pedophile and cannibal, the files that were released contained nothing of interest at all.
We want all the files.