Donald Trump says he will release unredacted JFK assassination files Tuesday

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Published 5:12 p.m. ET March 17, 2025 | 9:16 p.m. ET March 17, 2025


WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump said his administration on Tuesday will release all the government's classified files on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, making what he said will be about 80,000 pages of unredacted records available to the public for the first time.

"People have been waiting for decades for this," Trump said, announcing the upcoming release of the Kennedy files during a Monday visit to the John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts, which he's taken over as board chairman.

"We have a tremendous amount of paper. You've got a lot of reading. I don't believe we're going to redact anything," Trump said.

The release of the files comes after Trump signed a day one executive order in January aimed at fully releasing government documents related to the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother and presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/17/trump-release-80000-pages-jfk-assassination-files/82500162007/

[travelingthrulife]

1. Another distraction.

Every single bitch and conspiracy these lunatics have had for decades.

[Linda ladeewolf]

9. Came here to say this. I will not be distracted!

[Backseat Driver]

23. I don't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride

but something touched me deep inside -
the day that music died

So bye bye Ms American Pie - took my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry
and good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye singing this WILL be the day that I die.

[Backseat Driver]

25. Marilyn was very jealous, but he lies all the time

[forgotmylogin]

21. Trump is like Regina George with sensitive documents.

Unless they point at him, that is.

[intrepidity]

2. Next do UFOs. nt

[rampartd]

3. if these had been released by anyone else ...........

anything released by trump requires a broad swath of skepticism.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Will he attach his tax returns?

And is this time for distraction? I mean MAJOR distraction? Anything could slide under the radar of an event as momentous as this.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. ....

If he did, they would look like this -

[bucolic_frolic]

11. THIS. /nt

[Ray Bruns]

5. I'm still waiting for Mexico to pay for the wall .

[Scrivener7]

6. Sure. Like he released the Epstein files.

Which he didn't.

[mdbl]

28. If he did 2/3 would be redacted

[stoned]

8. I predict today will be a very interesting day

and many people will be very disappointed.

[Torchlight]

10. Unless it happens, I'll assume he's lying and covering up something else.

One third of his legacy right there.

[womanofthehills]

12. Releasing them the day after ok-ing the killing of over 400 Gazans

Mostly women and children. He planned the timing - kill the kids and then change the narrative.

[LeftinOH]

13. "You've got a lot of reading," he says. Because he surely won't be doing it.

[Stpaoulboy]

14. The C.I.A. will be implicated

The danger is it will further erode public trust in our institutions, which will play into the deep state bullshit. Bush Sr was director of the C.I.A. under Nixon for a reason. My long held belief was that Nixon broke into Watergate because he was paranoid that the Democrats could implicate him in the assassination. Will be interesting, it is going to be a huge distraction whether we want it to or not.

[Polybius]

19. Bush Sr. was not CIA Director under Nixon

He was became CIA Director on January 30, 1976. Under Ford.

[Stpaoulboy]

22. Thank you for the correction

[Polybius]

24. Sure

Your other points were very interesting though. You think Nixon may be implied?

[AntiFascist]

27. The "deep state" originally referred to far right, anti-democratic coalitions inside of Turkey, think Erdogan...

Being the master of projection that he is, Trump has been using the term against pro-democratic institutions.

The Republican party has long fostered extremist far right agendas, and I agree that Nixon was likely implicated in the assassination. JFK was considered a leftist traitor by the Far Right for mishandling the Bay of Pigs invasion and for his back-channel dealings with Khrushchev.

[BattleRow]

15. Wonder what RFKJr. will have to say?

[mdbl]

29. He blew the Kenedy legacy a long time ago

[Martin68]

16. Shiny baubles to distract the MAGAts.

[Bayard]

17. Biden did it!

[republianmushroom]

18. How about releasing an unredacted Mueller report, Smiths report ?

[kimbutgar]

20. A big nothing burger

[GreenWave]

26. Maybe his one day as a dictator is finally over?