President Donald TrumpThe executive order to declassify the JFK files did not impress one of the descendants of the 35th president. Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, made his position on the order clear in a post on X, saying there was “nothing heroic” about Trump’s latest move.
“Declassification uses JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to fight back,” Schlossberg wrote. – There is nothing heroic about it.
LEFT: JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg RIGHT: Trump holds the signed executive order. (REUTERS/Reba Saldanha/Kevin Lamarque)
TRUMP SIGNED AN ORDER TO DELETE THE JFK, RFK AND MLK ASSASSINATION FILES
After signing the order, which included the declassification of files on the assassinations of JFK, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.Trump told reporters that “all will be revealed.”
RFK Jr., the late senator’s son and Trump’s HHS nominee, told reporters the order was a “great move” by the president. He believes the move will bring “more transparency” and shows that Trump is “keeping his promise that the government will tell the truth to the American people about everything.” Kennedy was looking for answers about the murders of his father and uncle.
On Thursday, Trump signed an order declassifying files related to the assassinations of Kennedy and civil rights icon King. (Getty Images)
“I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not in the public interest and that the release of those records is long overdue,” Trump’s order reads.
The order gives officials a little more than two weeks (15 days) to provide Trump with a plan for “full and complete release of the records” on the JFK assassination. In addition, officials have 45 days to present a plan on files related to the assassinations of RFK and MLK Jr.
King’s family reacted to the order in a statement, saying they “hope to have an opportunity to review the files as a family before their public release.”
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Although Trump promised to release the JFK files during his first administration, there is still an unreleased amount of material that remains secret more than 60 years later.
Trump eventually agreed to block the release of the dossier after pleas from the CIA and FBI. At the time, he said the threat to release the documents was of “significant weight” and outweighed the “public interest”. In a recent appearing on “Hannity,” Trump said then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked him not to release the documents, though he did not say whether Pompeo explained why the files should remain classified.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
