# Trump releasing files on JFK assassination **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 24, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330 "2025-01-24T13:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/1 "2025-01-24T13:40:42Z")
[https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/trump-is-no-hero-for-releasing-jfk-assassination-files-says-jfk-s-grandson/ar-AA1xNcMw?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=a2d277ce1fe846d3a89f955462ddaf2c&ei=13](https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/trump-is-no-hero-for-releasing-jfk-assassination-files-says-jfk-s-grandson/ar-AA1xNcMw?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=a2d277ce1fe846d3a89f955462ddaf2c&ei=13) What’s wrong with this? He died over 60 years ago, there can’t be anything in them that’s still pertinent to an ongoing investigation, and it might help to shut the Conspiracy Theorists up. What’s the downside? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/2 "2025-01-24T14:01:34Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > it might help to shut the Conspiracy Theorists up. More likely, it will encourage them further. Both the “victory” of this declassification and because it likely has various leads, names and theories that didn’t pan out as worth pursuing but now represent a bunch of new threads for the lunatics to pull at. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/3 "2025-01-24T14:07:59Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > What’s wrong with this? Appears to be just another showy distraction. From the article: > The President signaled staff to return the signing pen to JFK’s nephew, vaccine skeptic and health secretary nominee Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has controversially woven himself into Trump’s political circle. However, it emerged this week that Trump was planning to hire [prominent health industry lobbyist Don Dempsey](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-don-dempsey-rfk-jr-healthcare-b2685207.html), something that would appear to be at odds with RFK Jr’s agenda. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/4 "2025-01-24T14:25:08Z")
This is just a shiny object to distract the rubes. The Warren Commission got it right, Oswald acted alone. SIrhan acted alone as well. The King files have the most chance of having any surprises but I doubt there is any meat there either. All done so that people stupid enough to think the president controls egg prices will pacify themselves with the thought that their orange god is valiantly showing what secrets the deep state holds. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/5 "2025-01-24T15:19:57Z")
Well, there always was the suspicion that the intelligence community was covering up that the USSR had JFK killed and hid the facts in order to not start a third World War with the Soviet Union. I mean, we did a lot of things to justify them doing so, but actually finding that out would piss most people off enough to want to start one. One of the more believable theories IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/6 "2025-01-24T15:41:48Z")
The government is so powerful and secretive that we finally got them to release the last of the files - surely in there is the secret they don’t want us to know! Point of order - if the super secret government wanted to keep something secret, they would destroy the evidence of said secret - or atleast put it ‘over there’. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/7 "2025-01-24T15:46:20Z")
I hear Ted Cruz is worried. Sorry, just trying to be funny. Absolutely, if the “secret cabal” didn’t want something revealed, it wouldn’t be. Once it shows Oswald acted alone, theres other deaths they can conspiracy over. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/8 "2025-01-24T15:54:38Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > and it might help to shut the Conspiracy Theorists up OMG, that’s hilarious! Nothing will shut them up. My prediction is, the classified documents have very little in them that isn’t already known from other sources, and what they have that is new will just confirm what we already know, Kennedy was shot by a lone gunman. And the CTists will react in a few ways: 1. Denouncing the new files as just more of the cover up 2. Claiming this isn’t everything, and demanding release of the “real classified documents” 3. Making up fake documents that “prove” their theory, and just claiming that it was part of this release ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/9 "2025-01-24T16:17:31Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > And the CTists will react in a few ways: > > 1. Denouncing the new files as just more of the cover up > 2. Claiming this isn’t everything, and demanding release of the “real classified documents” > 3. Making up fake documents that “prove” their theory, and just claiming that it was part of this release Yeah, it’s not like suddenly CT folks will become rational human beings just because documents were unclassified. I’d also add a 4th way they will react… By using something in the documents to create or support a different conspiracy that they claim is still being covered up. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/10 "2025-01-24T17:19:41Z")
Fugeddabout JFK, I want Dear Leader to release the UFO files. Carter promised, and then…silence. What was he hiding?? I mean, if we’re asking… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/11 "2025-01-24T19:09:24Z")
At least we can be confident that the US government isn’t harboring space aliens; I’m sure that Dear Leader would tell us all about them. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/12 "2025-01-24T19:19:22Z")
He is one. He is here To Serve Man. ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/13 "2025-01-24T21:32:00Z")
I don’t think that CT’s today in 2025 really care and this is seen as just a distraction, kind of like Elvis is still alive or type thing. Release the Epstein files, or 9/11 files. None of which he will do since he is implicated with Epstein and the fallout of the 9/11 lies is the only reason why he is president today. It’s more seen as him trying to bury the actual files on these matters. And for full discloser I am labeled as a CT on this board due to my stance on the 9/11 “official” story. We cannot move ahead until those lies of the “official” story are exposed, no matter what you think happened. There is no need to get into the weeds with that, the so-called story is a lie, and that is the problem. That is why there is no unifying truth today, it all started with 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/14 "2025-01-24T22:18:29Z")
Totally unaware how T relates to 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/15 "2025-01-24T22:23:54Z")
It relates to how the media is not trusted now since no one really believes the official 9/11 story in 2025, and the hate of the so called other. That’s why Trump is always saying that “terrorists” are coming over the border. It plays into the fear stoked by 9/11; you can see that right? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/16 "2025-01-24T22:27:52Z")
How rare is it that files are released? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/17 "2025-01-24T22:32:11Z")
I’ve never really understood the secrecy behind these files, unless it’s to keep the FBI’s techniques a secret. I suppose there could also be names in there of people that were interviewed who are still living. ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Jay\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jay_Z)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/18 "2025-01-24T22:33:59Z")
I think with what people believe today the JFK assassination is kind of quaint, old-timey? "Wow dude… you believe there was a conspiracy about JFK’s assassination… but you believe vaccinations are okay? Elections are safe? Wow, what an “out there” belief (eye roll) ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/19 "2025-01-24T23:01:01Z")
It’s a definite generational gap, and that makes it a distraction in 2025. Trump is going to spin it as he’s finally letting the truth come out, and that will appeal to the older members of Maga, this feeds into why they like him. They think he is telling the truth. People do notice that he did not release the Epstein files like he said he would though. Or anything on 9/11. So, this release is clear distraction to help the billionaires rob us blind. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330/20 "2025-01-25T03:09:43Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > It relates to how the media is not trusted now **since no one really believes the official 9/11 story** in 2025, and the hate of the so called other. That’s why Trump is always saying that “terrorists” are (bolding mine) Who, except CTs, don’t believe it? I know there are some, but I’ve never heard that even a majority of people don’t believe it, much less “no one”. I’m not asking you to defend your / their theory, just wondering how you came to this conclusion. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-releasing-files-on-jfk-assassination/1013330.md?page=2)