“I’ve revealed a lot, and everything else will be declassified,” Trump said, after Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. said last week that there was “compelling” evidence that the CIA was involved in his uncle’s death.
Asked whether the public should be concerned about the secrecy of JFK’s records, Trump said: ‘Well, I don’t want to comment on that but I will tell you I revealed a lot. And I will reveal the remaining part very early in my new term.”
Trump indicated that the continued seizures were necessary to protect against identifiable harm to national security at the time, or to law enforcement, and that it risked outweighing the public interest in prompt disclosure of those documents.
He added, “I will ask the agencies to re-review each of these revisions over the next three years, and the agencies must disclose information that no longer requires continued detention for that period.”
During his interview with The Messenger, when asked if the public should be concerned about anything in JFK’s records, Trump replied, “Well, I don’t want to comment on that. But I will tell you that I released a lot. I will release the remainder very early in my term.”
According to the newspaper, in 1992, when George H. Bush, then director of the CIA, imposed public disclosure of all documents related to John F. Kennedy. However, successive administrations, including the Biden administration, have refrained from releasing the documents in their entirety. While some of the material has been released by Biden, there remain approximately 4,300 records that have not been redacted.
