Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family's opposition

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.

The release involves more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered the records and turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration.

King’s family, including his two living children, Martin III and Bernice, were given advance notice of the release and had their own teams reviewing the records ahead of the public disclosure.

In a lengthy statement released Monday, the two living King children called their father’s case a “captivating public curiosity for decades.” But the pair emphasized the personal nature of the matter and urged that “these files must be viewed within their full historical context.”

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By BILL BARROW
Updated 4:03 PM EDT, July 21, 2025


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/martin-luther-king-fbi-files-donald-trump-1a58c3f0c9ec8878e487434e0d372b81

[Raven123]

1. I read a biography of J Edgar Hoover.

The author said these were scheduled for release in 2027 as I recall. Definitely an attempt to distract from Epstein.

[Buddyzbuddy]

2. Transparency for thee but not for me.

[bromeando]

3. Records

Now do Epstein files

[Ritabert]

4. Next up: Jimmy Hoffa's remains found in Pine Barrens NJ

[generalbetrayus]

5. Of course the Orange Julius Caesar regime released records of a black man, ahead of schedule.

[MichMan]

6. Happened 60 years ago.

No reason to keep them hidden for that long

[LudwigPastorius]

7. MLK's pillow talk during an extramarital affair will SURELY make everyone forget that...

Trump is a convicted felon, a rapist, a Russian agent, and that he incited an insurrection against the United States.

[slightlv]

8. They could also be hopeful it would start their much vaunted "Race War"...

[GenThePerservering]

9. "Trump releases MLK, Jr records that are not Epstein files" nt

[walkingman]

10. Never underestimate nasty white people. History has shown us this over and over.

[Scrivener7]

11. DISTRACT! DISTRACT! DISTRACT!

[FakeNoose]

12. This purely for spite ... and to distract the media from Epstein

So this proves that the Chump administration DOES have the ability to release certain FBI files ... when it wants to.

Now they can't really say that "It's Pam Bondi's decision" to release the Epstein files.
Because Bondi has nothing to do with MLK's files, she wasn't even consulted.
It was Chump's decision to release them.

Everything is political ... EVERYTHING!