Why didn't Trump release all JFK files?

The "national security" answer doesn't wash

I had occasion to read a great book recently, called “JFK and the Unspeakable” by James Douglass. Meticulously documented, the book unravels the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963. Rather than a fictional conspiracy theory, Douglass chronicles statements by witnesses and puts together the troubling reality - the “Deep State” exists, is vile and orchestrated the murder of a President because they didn’t like his policies. As the preface to the book reads in part: “. . . Kennedy was murdered by a power we cannot easily describe. Its unspeakable reality can be traced, suggested, reconciled and pondered.”

Donald Trump came to office as a surprise winner over Hillary Clinton who looked like a shoe-in right up until election day. Trump released many of the long-since declassified Kennedy records but withheld many others at the request of the FBI and CIA who (unsurprisingly given the history of these organizations) claimed their release would threaten national security. “National security” is the buzzword used by U.S. agencies to justify torture, suppression of free speech, violation of human rights and detention of Americans who have committed no crime without due process. It is a charade long used and overdue for a remedy. In the coming 2024 election, only Vivek Ramaswamy on the right and JFK’s nephew RFKjr. seem to have the stomach to upend the “deep state”. Pretending 50 year old archival records threaten “national security” is beyond absurd and not worthy of sensible consideration.

American politics is a blood sport and its administrative agencies are fine with spilling blood. Corrupt politicians like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Bob Menendez are not an aberration but an ever-present disease infecting the Republic. You don’t have to travel to Latin America or sub-Saharan Africa to find corruption - just take a trip to Washington D.C. and try to follow the money. Pelosi’s millions from front running acts of Congress in the stock market, Joe Biden’s payoffs through Hunter Biden’s so-called “business” and Bob Menendez’ payoffs from Egypt are not fiction but evidence of a creeping infection destructive to American society.

The evidence that JFK was killed by a conspiracy orchestrated by either the CIA or FBI or both of them is mounting. Eyewitness Sam Holland claims he saw a shot fired from the “grassy knoll”. The fatal wound Kennedy suffered was an entry wound from the front according to the doctors who treated him, not from Lee Harvey Oswald’s position in the book depository. Trump had the authority to release all previously classified documents from the JFK assassination, released some and but retained others. Why?

For those of you who like me are retired and enjoy reading history books, I suggest you get a copy of “JFK and the Unspeakable”. I have no doubt you will be persuaded it is time for fresh faces in Washington and in my opinion Ramaswamy would be the better choice, but RJKjr. is not a bad option to prevent continued leftist leadership determined to abandon free markets in favor of a socialist order. Even climate nutter and leftist activist AOC is calling out Menendez, a sign that perhaps a hint of common sense is finding its way into the Democrat Party.