Posted on 05/15/2023 4:55:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former President Donald Trump committed to releasing the outstanding archival records related to John F. Kennedy’s assassination should he win a second term.
"I released a lot, as you know. And I will release everything else," he told >the Messenger.
During his first term, Trump ordered thousands of JFK files released but kept thousands of others on hold amid concerns from the FBI and the CIA. The document dump was prompted by the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which set 2017 as a deadline to release all classified material about Kennedy's assassination.
In 2018, Trump delayed the full release of the tranche of Kennedy documents until October 2021 amid national security concerns. President Joe Biden later postponed that until December 2022, citing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Libertarian commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano indicated in a podcast that Trump noted concerns that the public shouldn't gain access to some of the classified content. Trump sidestepped a question about whether that was the case.
So far, Biden has released multiple batches of JFK documents. This includes nearly 1,500 in 2021 and over 13,000 last December, comprising over 70% of records previously withheld from the public.
Nevertheless, critics contend there are many documents that remain. The Mary Ferrell Foundation, a nonprofit group, slapped Biden and the National Archives and Records Administration with a lawsuit last year, contending the delay from 2017 violated the Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act.
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Well he had 4 years to do it the first time.
Don't play dumb.
GHWB was still alive too
I remember President Trump saying that he couldn’t do it because some were still alive
Don’t overpromise, Donald.
J. Carter said something similar about full disclosure for UFO’s and later quietly left it undone.
Didn’t he say that the first time around?
“Well he had 4 years to do it the first time.”
Worse than that, what difference does it make? That happened in 1963, 60 years ago. Everyone that could be handed a bad time is dead so nothing could be done with it. Why waste taxpayer money to chase it into the tomb to rattle no one’s cage.
wy69
What makes you think the second time would end any differently?
He also said Mexico would pay for the wall.
He would end the war in Ukraine but did nothing when he was in office.
He boasts about the bs vaccines
Full me once shame on me...
Trump should have pardoned both Assange and Snowdon
Not sure if he was threatened by the deep-state or just befuddled and unsure of what was really happening around him - like he was much of his 4 years
This guy pledges to do all these things in the future and thinks we will all cultically forget that he had four fricking years to do it in the past… Whether it’s JFK files (he can declassify by mere Samantha/Tabitha-winking, right?) or sealing the border completely with Mexico paying or abolishing the Department of Education… Now it’s this and I-will-end-the-Ukraine-war-in-a-day bloviating (more winking and magic wands) What a bunch of NYC realtor hot air and promises
Mexico is effectively paying for the wall in cost savings to the US government. Also, how could President Trump have ended the war in Ukraine when he was in office?
Gezuz...Leeeme guess, you’re a DeSantis supporter right?
So you’re saying he couldn’t overcome them… So if he couldn’t do it in four years why give him another four years? Illogical.
You’re a fraud who told all Trump was being hoodwink and the North Korean were going to nuke the U.S.
lol...
Mexico is effectively paying for the wall in cost savings to the US government.
Umm that is not how Trump sold it.
I want to know about the magic loogie, too!
You didn’t do it before. Why would I believe you now? And how much has been diverted?? You don’t think lotsa stuff met a fiery death? The whole will never happen. Move on...
The agencies would be dismantled or reformed
He also said Mexico would pay for the wall.
They did
He would end the war in Ukraine but did nothing when he was in office.
Ukraine and Russia weren't at war when Trump was in office
He boasts about the bs vaccines
Did he mandate you take them?
Full me once shame on me...
Well, we all know President DeSantis ain't gonna do crap.
And he will have corrupt intelligence agencies and bureaucrats blocking him this time also.
Who is going to dismantle or reform these agencies?
There is no one.
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