- RFK Jr. suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump
- Trump promised to release documents on JFK assassination if elected
Donald Trump has promised to release the remaining files on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy if he is elected president for a second term.
The former president previously said he would declassify the documents, but was urged not to by a senior member of his Cabinet, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Trump now appears to have changed his mind after an assassin failed to kill him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, shot Trump in the right ear. He was shot dead by Secret Service personnel, but not before killing one supporter and seriously wounding two others who were in the crowd that day.
Much like the assassination of Kennedy’s uncle, conspiracy theories are on the rise that Crooks did not act alone and may have been involved with a foreign entity such as Iran or Pakistan.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Donald Trump did not release the JFK assassination files when he was in office because then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged him not to
RFK Jr. revealed that Trump-era Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the one who persuaded Trump not to release the files.
The independent presidential candidate suspended his campaign in the 10 most competitive states and endorsed Trump last week, while the Republican candidate pledged to make public all documents related to the assassination of Kennedy’s uncle in 1963.
“I was surprised that Trump didn’t declassify them because he promised to do so during the campaign,” Kennedy said during an interview with Tucker Carlson.
“I spoke to President Trump for the first time about this this week,” he continued. “He said that Mike Pompeo begged him… he called him and said it would be a catastrophe to publish this.”
During the interview, the former Fox News host called Pompeo a “criminal.”
Trump said at a rally Friday night near Phoenix with the Democrat-turned-independent: “This is a tribute to Bobby.”
‘I will establish a new independent presidential commission on the assassination attempts, and it will be charged with releasing all remaining documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.’
The commission created to investigate JFK’s death concluded that gunman Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he killed the president in Dallas, Texas.
Trump has promised to release the files on the JFK assassination if he wins another term in the White House.
During an interview with Tucker Carlson, RFK Jr. blamed Trump for not making public the files on his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
But in the wake of JFK’s assassination in 1963 and in the decades following his death, several documents were withheld from the public, sparking conspiracy theories that still circulate today.
Some question whether Oswald worked with foreign entities such as the Soviets or Cubans, or even conspired with agents of the American CIA.
RFK Jr. said last year that he believes the CIA was involved in his uncle’s murder.
And now Rep. Mike Waltz is raising questions about whether Crooks acted alone in his attempt to assassinate Trump last month.
The Florida congressman told DailyMail.com there is no way the FBI and Secret Service can say for sure that the 20-year-old was a lone wolf when they still don’t know his motive for going after the former president.
Waltz is part of the House task force investigating the attempted assassination.
Task force member Rep. Jason Crowe, D-Colo., said during a news conference in Butler, Pa., on Monday that there is not enough evidence to suggest foreign entities were involved in one way or another.
Shortly after Crooks shot Trump, it was revealed that Iran was also planning an assassination attempt on the Republican presidential candidate.
For decades, conspiracies have emerged claiming that JFK’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was not a lone actor and that he worked with the Soviets or the Cubans, or even the American CIA.
