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President Donald Trump’s enforcement bid to declassify the JFK files near 1 of the 35th president’s descendants unimpressed. Jack Schlossberg, erstwhile President John F. Kennedy’s grandson, made his stance connected the bid wide successful a station connected X, saying that determination was "nothing heroic" astir Trump’s latest move.
"Declassification is utilizing JFK arsenic a governmental prop, erstwhile he’s not present to punch back," Schlossberg wrote. "There’s thing heroic astir it."
TRUMP SIGNS ORDER TO DECLASSIFY FILES ON JFK, RFK AND MLK ASSASSINATIONS
After signing the order, which included the declassification of files connected the assassinations of JFK, his member Robert F. Kennedy and civilian rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., Trump told reporters that "everything volition beryllium revealed."
RFK Jr., lad of the precocious legislator and Trump’s HHS nominee, told property that the bid was a "great move" connected the president’s part. He believes that the determination volition bring "more transparency" and it shows that Trump is "keeping his committedness to person the authorities archer the information to the American radical astir everything." Kennedy has called for answers connected his begetter and uncle’s assassinations.
"I person present determined that the continued redaction and withholding of accusation from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not accordant with the nationalist involvement and the merchandise of these records is agelong overdue," Trump's bid reads.
The bid gives officials conscionable implicit 2 weeks (15 days) to springiness Trump a program for "the afloat and implicit merchandise of records" connected the JFK assassination. Additionally, officials person 45 days to contiguous a program connected files relating to RFK and MLK Jr.’s assassinations.
King’s household reacted to the bid successful a statement, saying that they "hope to beryllium provided the accidental to reappraisal the files arsenic a household anterior to its nationalist release."
While Trump promised to merchandise the JFK files during his archetypal administration, determination is inactive an undisclosed magnitude of worldly that remains nether wraps much than 60 years later.
Trump yet agreed to artifact the merchandise of the files aft pleas from the CIA and FBI. At the time, helium said that the menace of making the documents nationalist were of "significant gravity" that they outweighed "public interest." In a caller appearance connected "Hannity," Trump said that then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked him not to merchandise the documents, though helium did not accidental if Pompeo explained wherefore the files should stay classified.
Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
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