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President Donald Trump announced on Monday at the Kennedy Center that 80,000 files related to former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination will be released on Tuesday.
The president noted that people have “waited decades” for the information.
“We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files,” Trump said. “So people have been waiting for decades for this, and I’ve instructed my people that are responsible, lots of different people, put together by Tulsi Gabbard, and that’s going to be released tomorrow.”
The files may be released Tuesday afternoon, according to The Daily Wire.
“We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, just don’t redact. You can’t redact,” Trump added. “But we’re going to be releasing the JFK files, and that would be tomorrow.”
“It’s approximately 80,000 pages,” he said. “So it’s a lot of stuff, and you’ll make your own determination.”
As RSBN previously reported, Trump vowed to share files concerning Kennedy ahead of his inauguration.
“As the first step to restoring transparency and accountability to government we will also reverse the overclassification of government documents. And in the coming days, we’re going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other topics of great public interest,” Trump stated in January.
On Jan. 23, Trump signed an executive order to declassify records concerning the assassinations of Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay,” the order read.