Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted on X for the first time in nearly a month on Friday to thank President Donald Trump for declassifying the files related to the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, and father, Robert F. Kennedy.

Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify the JFK and RFK files, along with the files on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. After signing the order, the president told his aide to give the pen he used to RFK Jr., his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary.

“A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed,” Trump said.

In a post on Friday, Kennedy thanked Trump “for trusting American citizens and for taking the first step down the road towards reversing this disastrous trajectory” of government secrecy. He argued, “A government that withholds information is inherently fearful of its citizens’ ability to make informed decisions and participate actively in democracy.”

“JFK warned that ‘The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secrecy … We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it,’” Kennedy wrote.

“The 60-year strategy of lies and secrecy, disinformation, censorship, and defamation employed by Intel officials to obscure and suppress troubling facts about JFK’s assassination has provided the playbook for a series of subsequent crises — the MLK and RFK assassinations, Vietnam, 9/11, the Iraq war and COVID — that have each accelerated the subversion of our exemplary democracy by the Military/Medical Industrial Complex and pushed us further down the road toward totalitarianism,” he added.

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According to Trump’s order, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Attorney General will have 15 days to come up with a plan for the release of the JFK files and 45 days to plan for the release of the RFK and MLK files. The Senate still has to confirm Tulsi Gabbard to serve as DNI and Pam Bondi to serve as AG.

“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,” Trump’s executive order states.

The family of MLK also released a statement after Trump signed the order and asked for “the opportunity to review the files as a family prior to its public release.”

“For us, the assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last 56 years,” the King family said.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted on X for the first time in nearly a month on Friday to thank President Donald Trump for declassifying the files related to the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, and father, Robert F. Kennedy.

Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify the JFK and RFK files, along with the files on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. After signing the order, the president told his aide to give the pen he used to RFK Jr., his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary.

“A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed,” Trump said.

In a post on Friday, Kennedy thanked Trump “for trusting American citizens and for taking the first step down the road towards reversing this disastrous trajectory” of government secrecy. He argued, “A government that withholds information is inherently fearful of its citizens’ ability to make informed decisions and participate actively in democracy.”

“JFK warned that ‘The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secrecy … We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it,’” Kennedy wrote.

“The 60-year strategy of lies and secrecy, disinformation, censorship, and defamation employed by Intel officials to obscure and suppress troubling facts about JFK’s assassination has provided the playbook for a series of subsequent crises — the MLK and RFK assassinations, Vietnam, 9/11, the Iraq war and COVID — that have each accelerated the subversion of our exemplary democracy by the Military/Medical Industrial Complex and pushed us further down the road toward totalitarianism,” he added.

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According to Trump’s order, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Attorney General will have 15 days to come up with a plan for the release of the JFK files and 45 days to plan for the release of the RFK and MLK files. The Senate still has to confirm Tulsi Gabbard to serve as DNI and Pam Bondi to serve as AG.

“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,” Trump’s executive order states.

The family of MLK also released a statement after Trump signed the order and asked for “the opportunity to review the files as a family prior to its public release.”

“For us, the assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last 56 years,” the King family said.

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