He’s not yet sworn into office, yet President-elect Donald Trump is already making plenty of waves. As Biden lays further waste to his dark legacy, Trump is busy changing the country.
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What’s happening:
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Now, he’s promising to release government information on the 1960s assassinations that rocked the nation—and the world: those of then-President John F. Kennedy Jr., his brother, then-Democrat presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy, and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
President-elect Trump vowed Sunday that he would release long-classified government records on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
Trump made the pledge to a crowd during his Victory Rally at Washington, D.C.’s Capital One Arena, which has a 20,000-seat capacity, telling supporters it is the beginning of an effort to increase government transparency.
“As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents,” Trump said.
Trump just said he WILL declassify all files related to the JFK assassination.
One of two things will be true:
1) The government killed JFK and covered it up and fought for decades to keep people from knowing the truth.
2) The files will tell us nothing and be incredibly…
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 19, 2025
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2) The files will tell us nothing and be incredibly boring and show that we overclassify documents to give unimpressive people unnecessary jobs with silly titles.
This would be epic, seeing as those murders changed the world and led to decades of conspiracy theories, especially regarding JFK. Few people believe that the American public has been told the full story:
According to a new FiveThirtyEight-commissioned SurveyMonkey poll of 5,130 adults, conducted Oct. 17 to Oct. 20, 2017, only 33 percent of Americans believe that one man was responsible for the assassination. A majority, 61 percent, think that others were involved in a conspiracy. In pretty much every demographic, most respondents believed that Oswald didn’t act alone.
65% Of Americans Say JFK’s Assassination Was An ‘Inside Job’ https://t.co/BA4oGDqf8U #OAN
— One America News (@OANN) November 22, 2023
Trump says he’s releasing it all:
“And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” he continued. “It’s all going to be released.”
He declined to do so in his first term:
During his first administration, Trump had promised to release all the files related to John F. Kennedy, but an undisclosed amount of material remains under wraps more than six decades after Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
After appeals from the CIA and FBI, Trump blocked the release of hundreds of records. Trump said at the time the potential harm to U.S. national security, law enforcement or foreign affairs is “of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.”
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Yet again, Trump is a game-changer. It’s time to put these controversies to rest. The feeling that our government isn’t being straight with us has lingered since those dark, bloody days in the 1960s, and has contributed to the overall distrust Americans have in their institutions. It’s time to clean, and I hope Trump sticks to his guns this time around.
