Peloni: So it took 60 days instead of 15 days as ordered by Trump for Gabbard and Bondi to release the long awaited documents on the Kennedy assassination. Notably, the final release of the JFK files took place almost a month after Bondi’s notorious release of previously released documents in the Binder fiasco on Feb 27, and even as they were released, redactions remained which took another day to have unredacted. It will be curious to see how long it will take for the files on RFK and MLK to be released, which should have been released more than two weeks ago per Trump’s instruction to have them released within 45 days. Curiously, the absurd delays on the release of these documents would seem to indicate a clear effort working at cross purposes to Trump’s orders, and on events which took place more than 6 decades ago.
Eireann Van Natta | Daily Caller | March 18, 2025
By The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Signs an Executive Order, Public Domain
The Trump administration released 80,000 pages of previously classified President John. F Kennedy assassination files late Tuesday.
President Trump signed an executive order in January directing Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard to present him with a plan on releasing the files within 15 days.
The order also directed the AG and DNI to present a plan within 45 days to release the assassination files of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Then, Trump unexpectedly announced Monday that the files would be released the following day, unredacted. They were released Tuesday around 6 p.m., some appearing to be at least partially redacted. However, some redacted files that had previously been redacted now appear to be unsealed.
“We are announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files,” Trump said yesterday. “So people have been waiting for decades for this, and I’ve reached out to my people.”
Trump said on Monday he doesn’t believe there would be redactions in the approximately 80,000 pages of documents.
“We have a tremendous amount of paper and a lot of reading,” Trump said. “I don’t believe we are going to redact anything. I said ‘just don’t redact it, you can’t redact it.’”
The National Archives in 2017 released nearly 3,000 records concerning the JFK assassination.
The FBI discovered an additional 2,400 records related to JFK in February. The bureau said they were “previously unrecognized” as pertaining to the JFK assassination.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is still in the process of releasing the Jeffrey Epstein Files.
Backlash circulated online when the first phase of files was distributed to conservative influencers through binders and reportedly contained few revelations. Bondi accused the FBI Field Office in New York of deliberately hiding thousands of pages of Epstein files in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel on Feb. 27. She demanded the bureau deliver the “full and complete Epstein files” to her office by 8 a.m. on Feb. 28.
Bondi said she received a “truckload” of files from the FBI in New York but did not give a timeline as to when she would release those to the public.
As of publication, those Epstein files have yet to be released.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese in March that DNI Gabbard and the DOJ are “working…diligently” to release the Epstein and JFK files.
Leavitt stated during the briefing that she also does not have a timeline for the release of the Epstein documents.
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The content of the released information needs to be scrutinized to be sure that we are not being hood-winked once again. There have been so many rumors around JFK’s assassination that it will be tough to weed out the truth. We can expect, for example, that all the false trails that turned up during the investigation, if it can be called that, will be prominently on display. At the end of the day, they achieved their intentions and now, 60+ years later, we can’t turn back the lost time. An analysis of all the good things we missed will only cause us everlasting depression.
@Raphael
This is not about perfection it is about prudence and reform.
Bondi tried to use the power of her office to have an inocent man found guilty in a race baiting murder trial with high stakes political implications, plus she is a Qatari lobbyist. Wiles is also a Qatrai lobbyist, and is deeply connected to PHARMA who helped pushed the Covid scam on the world. Gabbard is entirely aligned against Trump upto about 6months ago, and made her first choice for the most sensitive position in her staff to be someone who entirely agreed with her positions prior to be a aligned with Trump, ie he was opposed to Trump on every issuse including the Pals and Iran, much as Gabbard was in years past.
These are not small criticisms, and these people are not just imperfect, they carry significant power which offers them the ability to do a great deal of harm with their respective histories.
If Trump is going to successfully impliment essential reforms in the US, he needed such positions as the to be filled with people who would be aligned with those reforms which might be considered most essential. PHARMA allies, corrupt politicians, and Qatari lobbyists seem to be poor choices to help him reform the deep seeded corruption for which Trump only has 4 years to accomplish. Or so I would suggest, in any event.
@peloni
Bondi, et al. may not be as perfect as we would want them to be. Trump isn’t either, for that matter, but I think that, on balance, they will be OK. I watched all of their Senate Confirmation testimonies, and came away believing that they spoke frankly, and are not dissemblers. Time will tell. Pray for them.
@Raphael
No, that is not why, not at all. The gross incompetence displayed at the initial unveiling of already released documents demonstrated that the parties involved are either incompetent or unprepared for the task at hand, and the significant delay which followed before the second release was hardly warranted as it was remarked that the delay was due to the need to redact sensitive details, only to have a third release a day later with all redactions removed.
These are however irrelevant to the real reason we should be concerned about Trump’s picks which can be found in the following articles which were published here on Israpundit before the relative nominees were confirmed:
HEADS UP, MR. PRESIDENT – THERE ARE SABOTEURS ALL AROUND YOU! PART ONE
MR. PRESIDENT, WHO ON EARTH IS VETTING YOUR MAGA APPOINTEES? PART TWO
DISASTROUS CHOICES ARE SABOTAGING TRUMP’S VICTORY PART THREE
DAMNING EVIDENCE ON MS. TULSI – CULTS, COMMUNISM, CORRUPTION!
Why Is Gabbard’s Judgement So Bad? And Why This Is So Relevant.
Daniel Davis, Massad Boulos, and other Troublesome Trump Choices…
Daniel Davis Has Never Met a Terrorist Group or Country Threatening Israel That He Didn’t Like
So why are we upset with Bondi, Gabbard, Patel, etc. because it has taken 60 days to get the 80,000(+) page Kennedy assassination report released, instead of 15 days? (Wasn’t that a little bit unrealistic?) A delay of a few days is inconsequential, given that it has been sitting in someone’s bottom desk drawer for 62 YEARS. Yet, nobody seems too upset about that, but if Bondi is a few days late…OMG, its a national scandal. Plus, after 62+ years, who seriously thinks that any incriminating evidence still remains in those 80,000 pages? That tome might make for some interesting reading on the john, but it’s not going to answer any of the big questions, like who killed President Kennedy, who ordered it, and why? And even if names are named, who would trust that information? So, while we may or may not learn anything from these 80,000 pages, the important thing, (and many are missing the point), is that Trump and his administration are making a valiant effort to re-establish transparency in government.