President Trump connected Thursday signed an enforcement bid to declassify files connected the assassinations of erstwhile President John F. Kennedy, and civilian rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
Trump had promised to declassify the previously-classified documents during his 2024 campaign.
"Everything volition beryllium revealed," Trump told reporters arsenic helium signed the bid successful the Oval Office of the White House.
During his archetypal administration, Trump had promised to merchandise each the files related to John F. Kennedy, but an undisclosed magnitude of worldly remains nether wraps much than six decades aft Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963, successful Dallas, Texas.
President John F. Kennedy (Getty)
After appeals from the CIA and FBI, Trump blocked the merchandise of hundreds of records. Trump said astatine the clip the imaginable harm to U.S. nationalist security, instrumentality enforcement oregon overseas affairs is "of specified gravity that it outweighs the nationalist involvement successful contiguous disclosure."
Trump’s committedness to besides merchandise outstanding documents related to King and erstwhile U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy leaves questions arsenic to however the president-elect volition velocity up the releases.
Under the Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act, the remaining files pertaining to King are not owed for merchandise until 2027.