Our new commander-in-chief, Donald Trump, has announced that once he takes office, he plans on rebuilding transparency with the government by releasing classified files connected to the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. If you thought that the next four years were going to be like the last time we had Trump in office, you better think again. He doesn’t have to worry about reelection so he’s free to pursue his agenda for the country without any concerns about political expediency.
“As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents,” he went on to say while giving 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.”
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Some folks are scared that Trump publishing these classified files could end up getting him killed.
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.
The president then said that the reason he pushed off the release of the files is due to “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.
It’s a good idea to take this course of action because Americans have a right to know what happened to these men.
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 said in his conversation with 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.”
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