Trump vows to release JFK, RFK, MLK assassination records in 'coming days'
President-elect Trump on Sunday vowed to release records related to former President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassinations "in the coming days."
“As a first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the overclassification of government documents, 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 and other topics of great public interest,” Trump said during a rally at Washington D.C.’s Capital One Arena in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
Robert F. Kennedy’s son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., backed Trump’s 2024 bid for the presidency, and has been picked by Trump as his nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. In a 2023 interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. backed a conspiracy theory about the CIA being involved in his uncle’s killing.
“There is overwhelming evidence that the CIA was involved in his murder,” Kennedy told radio host John Catsimatidis. “I think it’s beyond a reasonable doubt at this point.”
The CIA has consistently denied allegations of its involvement in former President Kennedy’s death, which occurred in Dallas in 1963.
Also during his Sunday rally, Trump promised a surge of executive action on his first day back in the Oval Office, vowing that his supporters will “have a lot of fun” amid the barrage.
“Every radical and foolish executive order of the Biden administration will be repealed within hours of when I take the oath of office,” Trump said.
“Oh, you’re going to have a lot of fun watching television tomorrow,” he added. “Somebody said yesterday, ‘Sir, don’t sign so many in one day. Let’s do it over a period of weeks.’ I said, ‘Like hell we’re going to do it over weeks.’ We’re going to sign them at the beginning.”
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