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President Trump pledged to open classified JFK assassination files. What happened to that?
Tampa Bay Times ^ | Dec 7 2020 | By Kevin G. Hall

Posted on 01/06/2021 5:03:07 PM PST by rintintin

Like many Americans his age, Donald Trump shared an interest in the mysterious assassination of President John F. Kennedy. So much so that soon after taking office he pledged, as a Washington outsider, to order the release of all related documents kept secret in government vaults.

Now weeks away from leaving office, it appears he’ll leave that task of historical interest and significance to President-elect Joe Biden.

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1 posted on 01/06/2021 5:03:07 PM PST by rintintin
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But he did release a lot of documents.


2 posted on 01/06/2021 5:04:53 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: rintintin

He can’t declassify what they won’t release.


3 posted on 01/06/2021 5:05:34 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: rintintin

He never got around to it. Kept too busy playing defense against the Mad Maxines of the world.

President Jimmy Carter also made a promise to expose and explain the UFO mysteries. Somehow, he just never got around to it. The economy crashing may have served as a good reason to ‘postpone’ full disclosure. Many think ‘somebody got to him’ and explained that the public was not nearly ready to handle the full truth about UFO and other phenomena.


4 posted on 01/06/2021 5:09:48 PM PST by lee martell
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To: rintintin

Hardly of great import at this moment.


5 posted on 01/06/2021 5:10:34 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: lee martell

Would take a secretary and 5 minutes..


6 posted on 01/06/2021 5:10:54 PM PST by aces (and )
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To: rintintin

The guy carrying the JFK documents to Trump was accidentally shot to death when someone was cleaning his rifle on his front porch and it went off as the guy was passing by. The shooter was so upset he ran away and was never found. Case is closed and sealed.

The UFO documents were mistakenly erased when a file clerk hit delete downloads by mistake.


7 posted on 01/06/2021 5:11:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: rintintin

What about “common core”?


8 posted on 01/06/2021 5:11:40 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: rintintin

If his orders aren’t obeyed, then what? No order he gives now will be obeyed after today. Trump will get the blame.

The Lion has been pulled down by the jackals and hyenas of both parties.


9 posted on 01/06/2021 5:11:42 PM PST by dynachrome ( “The people have spoken . . . and they must be punished.” Ed Koch. Sauve Qui Peut)
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To: rintintin

He saw what was in them, and understood that the American people couldn’t know the truth.


10 posted on 01/06/2021 5:13:43 PM PST by PAR35
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“ hardly of great import at this moment.”

You can’t say that if you don’t know what’s in them. The assassination of a US president is of no small importance. how why and by whom it happened are hardly insignificant questions. And govts refusal to let us know what it knows raises questions and concerns


11 posted on 01/06/2021 5:14:43 PM PST by rintintin (Every time a conservative watches Tucker, a Fox News liberal reporter gets a pay raise. )
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To: lee martell
He never got around to it. Kept too busy playing defense against the Mad Maxines of the world.

We don't know that...he orders the release, it passes down the chain of command to finally reach the file clerk/clerks who pull the files.

At any point along that path DS and Fifth column gov employees can slow walk the process both down and back up the line, adding objections, reviews, excuses, etc to not do their jobs.

Too many here think POTUS has a virtual filing cabinet at his finger tips.

12 posted on 01/06/2021 5:16:49 PM PST by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

I agree, the comment above that says it would only take a secretary five minutes to do this is a hoot. Things only happen rapidly when something like a rope is hanging in a NASCAR garage.


13 posted on 01/06/2021 5:30:37 PM PST by 12chachacha (Bad illogical advice)
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To: PAR35

“He saw what was in them, and understood that the American people couldn’t know the truth.”

The American people crave the truth and can handle it. Sadly, the only secrets in Washington are those kept from the American people. The politicians, the media, and foreign powers know all our secrets.

Julian Assange and Christopher Snowden are the patriots of today. At great personal cost they revealed information hidden from the people. If Trump only does one more thing before January 20, I hope it will be to give both of them a full pardon.


14 posted on 01/06/2021 5:32:15 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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relevancy now ?

a 6 year old pelosi actually did it??

Now back to the mayhem in the capitol ....


15 posted on 01/06/2021 5:33:08 PM PST by elbook
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To: rintintin

Probably the same thing that happened to Jimmy Carter’s pledge to open the UFO files.

Still waiting.


16 posted on 01/06/2021 5:36:48 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.)
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To: rintintin

Most likely, the key information being kept secret would be deeply embarassing to friendly countries like Mexico.


17 posted on 01/06/2021 5:53:02 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Soul of the South

That’s Edward Snowden. Very good point, though.


18 posted on 01/06/2021 5:54:09 PM PST by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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To: rintintin

Most sensible thing to me was the mob doing the hit.


19 posted on 01/06/2021 6:41:45 PM PST by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: rintintin

He released some, others he used some excuse that included words about possible reasons why not, such as to prevent harm to allies.


20 posted on 01/06/2021 7:05:19 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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