“People have been waiting for decades for this,” he teased during a press conference outside the Kennedy Center. “We have a tremendous amount of paper. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything.”
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The official release comes about seven weeks after Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents related to JFK’s assassination, as well as the 1968 assassinations of his brother Sen. Robert Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
In 2017, during his first term in office, Trump promised he’d release the remaining files connected to the JFK assassination, but held back some documents that could potentially harm national security, according to The Associated Press.
But many people on social media were skeptical that the document dump would provide new information, considering President Joe Biden ordered the release of 13,173 assassination documents in December 2022.
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Many also predicted that Tuesday’s dump would turn out much like last month’s release of the so-called Epstein files, which turned out not to contain anything that wasn’t already public.
Some folks predicted MAGA followers would be very disappointed.
