Trump Promises to Release JFK, Robert Kennedy, MLK Assassination Files Before Inauguration

Trump Promises to Release JFK: US President-elect Donald Trump said that he would release classified documents in the upcoming days linked to the assassinations of former US president John F Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.

Trump, who returns to the White House on Monday, promised on the campaign trail to release classified intelligence and law enforcement files on the 1963 assassination of JFK, as America's 35th president is widely known.

“As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents,” Trump told supporters in the 20,000-seat Capital One Arena.

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"In the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records related 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 was quoted as saying by news agency Reuters at the Make America Great Again (MAGA) 'victory rally' at the Capital One Arena in Washington DC.

During his first administration, Trump had taken a hard look at releasing the JFK files, in keeping with the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which set a 2017 deadline to release the remaining files.

However, he faced stiff pushback from national security luminaries such as his former CIA director Mike Pompeo –who later became secretary of state.

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Due to that resistance, Trump released a tranche of files and then postponed the full release to October 2021. President Biden took a similar approach.

Well over 95% of the CIA’s records pertaining to the JFK assassination have been released thus far, CNN previously reported. Kennedy was killed on Nov. 22, 1963.

Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the incoming administration, said that Trump has planned to start signing the orders immediately after his inauguration, with many of the moves being part of “omnibus” directives. Trump previously indicated he would sign at least 25 orders on his first day in office.

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