Donald Trump introduced on Monday that he could be releasing 80,000 pages of unredacted files associated to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
“Folks have been ready for many years for this,” he teased throughout a press convention exterior the Kennedy Heart. “We have now an incredible quantity of paper. I don’t consider we’re going to redact something.”
The official launch comes about seven weeks after Trump signed an executive order to declassify paperwork associated to JFK’s assassination, in addition to the 1968 assassinations of his brother Sen. Robert Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
In 2017, throughout his first time period in workplace, Trump promised he’d release the remaining files related to the JFK assassination, however held again some paperwork that could potentially harm national security, in line with The Related Press.
However many individuals on social media had been skeptical that the doc dump would supply new data, contemplating President Joe Biden ordered the discharge of 13,173 assassination paperwork in December 2022.
Many additionally predicted that Tuesday’s dump would prove very similar to final month’s launch of the so-called Epstein information, which turned out to not comprise something that wasn’t already public.
Some of us predicted MAGA followers could be very upset.
Different individuals speculated about what would possibly distinguish the information on Kennedy’s assassination from the Epstein information and ― spoiler alert ― it’s a five-letter phrase starting with the letter “T” and rhymes with “rump.”
One one that isn’t excited concerning the launch of the JFK information is Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg.
Again in January, when Trump was first teasing the discharge of the paperwork, Schlossberg took to X, previously Twitter, and declared, “Declassification is utilizing JFK as a political prop, when he’s not right here to punch again. There’s nothing heroic about it.”