‘All will be revealed!’ Trump poised to release JFK assassination files as President signs latest executive order
Donald Trump has signed an executive order to release the assassination files of John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
In his latest high-profile signing since returning to the White House on Monday, Trump vowed that “all will be revealed” as he put pen to paper on bringing the details of JFK’s death to light.
“That’s a a big one, huh?” Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office. “A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. Everything will be revealed.”
And in a show of faith to JFK’s nephew – and Trump’s incoming health secretary – Robert F Kennedy Jr, the President directed aides to pass the signing pen to his key ally.
On the campaign trail on the path back to office, Trump had vowed to release classified intelligence and law enforcement files on JFK’s mysterious November 1963 killing.
On Sunday, he told supporters at a Washington DC rally: “In the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records related to the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr Martin Luther King Jr and other topics of great public interest.”
One section of the executive order’s text reads: “I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue.
“And although no Act of Congress directs the release of information pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F Kennedy and the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr, I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government’s possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest.”
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But he may face resistance from what he calls the “swamp”.
Trump had released some documents related to the assassination, but ultimately caved to pressure from the Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation, and kept a significant chunk of documents under wraps over “national security concerns”.
Soon-to-be-health chief RFK Jr has said he believes the CIA was involved in his uncle’s death – which the agency has described as “baseless”.
Kennedy Jr has also said he believes his father, Robert Kennedy, was killed by multiple gunmen – which flies in the face of public accounts of his death.
Today’s executive order was the 30th such document signed by Trump in his first four days in office.
Other notable signings have included the President’s pledge to take down “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) programmes, enshrining “two genders” in law, establishing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
But one of his orders has been met with resistance by the left – just hours ago, Trump’s push to reform birthright citizenship in the US was blocked by a judge.