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US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump says he will shortly release all of the secret US government files pertaining to the assassination of JFK.
Those files have been sealed since the killing of John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Trump’s announcement, made unsurprisingly via Twitter today, comes on the back of media reports in the US that not all of the files would be released, given the ongoing survival of relevant personnel and other reasons of national security.
The files are scheduled to be opened in their entirety next Thursday, 26 October, an event that US historians and a planet worth of conspiracy buffs have been eagerly anticipating.
Many of the files regarding the assassination and the subsequent Warren Commission investigation into it have already been released under a 1992 law, itself passed in response to the release the previous year of Oliver Stone’s conspiracy-laden movie JFK.
That law placed a hold on certain files (believed to number over 3,000), while others that were released were heavily redacted.
Those redacted files would be expected to be released in their original guise on Thursday.
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Must something brewing so a big distraction needed
@TonyF: bet ya not one hair on that barnet would move if he did..
@TonyF: Especially given the frequency and intensity of assassination threats from lunatic leftists.
@Aldric Montague: Funnily enough, it is the right wing ones who are killing right now?
@bmul: my thoughts exactly. Tax reforms coming up
@Anne Marie Devlin: yep wants to hide it’d the top 1% who will benefit most
@TonyF: in fairness most wpuod be assassins would be the type of people who voted for him. He’ll be grand
@bmul: would much prefer him to release all the area 51 files.
@Stephen murphy:
Correct, Far right Islamic extremists.
@TonyF: pity he wouldn’t!!
@bmul: So…he’s taking credit for something thats going to happen anyway?
@Anne Marie Devlin: rumour has it he will be inpeached by the republucans once they get their tax relief for struggling billionaires thru.
Hopefully he releases the Israeli 9/11 files too.
@alphanautica: The files that the Israelis passed to the Americans via French intelligence before the attacks? (that named 19 individuals who were planning an attack and advised that 4 were taking flying lessons)
@Honeybadger197: 6 of the 9/11 hijackers are still alive. not sure if that includes the ones the FBI ‘found their passports in the ruins of WTC1 the next morning’. Such utter hogwash.
Gullibility is so strong in the US.
@alphanautica: Do those file contain information about the five dancing Israelis whoe turned out to be Mossad agents who were there to “document the event”?
We love the Kennedys even with their infidelity and affairs. 1960s Ireland we were fearful Catholics while the Kennedys didn’t practice what they preached.
@Jay Lane: The very fact that he was a prominent world figure with a strong Irish connection was enough to absolve him of all sins. If Joseph Stalin’s grandparents were from Ballybunion we probably would’ve invited him over for a tour of the town.
@O Swetenham: Sure Dev sympathised when Hitler lost & died
@Jay Lane: Dev would’ve sympathized with the devil himself if it gave him the opportunity thumb his nose at England.
@O Swetenham: Hitler or devil, what’s the difference?
@Jay Lane: the devil has better facial hair
@O Swetenham: probably lesser than two evils?
@O Swetenham: sins?
@Seamus McSpud: Well what a good Irish Catholic would consider a sin. After all, adultery is considered a sin to them, is it not?
@O Swetenham: The man had Collins shot, who would’ve known Michael’s comings and goings only his own crew.
Haha, aye that’s right. In fact in the uncut version of ‘Michael Collins’ Dev himself pulls the trigger. This is veering wildly off topic, I’m most definitely not a fan of DeValera, but in the very long list of criticisms I could level at the man, him signing a book of condolences is somewhere near the bottom.
@Stephen murphy: Civil war 2 is next May aka abortion debate
@O Swetenham: Funny how the toothbrush moustache went completely out of fashion but the smeg endures forever.
@Jay Lane: If the Don would have a few affairs. and even admit to it, I would sleep happily in my bed tonight without wondering what tweet may cause chaos on this planet where we try to exist.
@Jay Lane: Unless I’m mistaken Ireland was neutral during WW2 therefore it was simple protocol to express sympathy for the death of a foreign leader to the relevant ambassador. This is all the sitting Taoiseach did.
@O Swetenham:
Stalin was born in Gori or Gorey
No problem releasing this, but he can’t even release tax returns?
This is nothing more then a ploy to distract away from something thats coming that will negatively effect him
@Barry Somers: Say what you like but the US stock market has reached its highest point since records began, and unemployment is at an all time low. The majority of Americans don’t care about his tax returns, why are we so obsessed about this from 5,000 miles away?
@Simon O’Connor: Which of Trumps policies achieved this? This momentum had been building quarter on quarter throughout Obamas tenure. You must know this is the case.
@Honeybadger197: it would happen no matter who is in charge Obama had nothing to do with it either
@Simon O’Connor: unemployment figures are FAKE Trump said for over a year before he was elected
@Simon O’Connor: U do know that rising markets mean the haves get richer and the have nots get poorer.
You do understand this,right?
Why doesn’t he release his tax returns? That’s a bigger mystery.
Hopefully this will finally clear Ted Cruz father of any wrongdoing.
As if they’d give them to him…
This has nothing to do with Trump. It was decided in 1992 to release these files after 25 more years.
On a side note – Trump tried to smear Ted Cruz during the campaign about his Dad having some involvement with Lee Harvey Oswald.
What about the Roswell files and the aliens that survived???
@winston smith: I suppose you’re one of these lads that believe the queen is a lizard?
You suggesting that Elton is a reptile?
@winston smith: Trump proves that there was nothing in Roswell files – he would have blabbed all about everything by now
The Donald loves a good conspiricy and there’s enough fake news in this story to keep him distracted for years. That might be a good thing!
@Reg: from the grassy knoll to the gassy troll, love it.
Actually they were legally due to be released next week anyway. Nothing to do with Trump.
He’s just taking credit for it.
That should put the CIA and the Cuban Mafia in the light then and what about George Bush Sr then lol.
But who killed Roger Rabbit?
@Niall Sullivan: That was just a conspiracy, he’s actually still alive, living somewhere near Dingle I hear.
@Niall Sullivan: or Marilyn Monroe ?
@Clever Jake: I think that there’s a cream he can take for that!
He said the files will be opened, he never said he’d be sharing all of them!
The leftist lot will probably try and say he did it.
It was the CIA. They won’t be held responsible either.
Oh for another grassy knoll
I sense a terrible accident coming ahead…
I prefer the Oliver Stone version myself thankjs!
50 yrs to filter and sieve!
I wonder will they release the Donald Trump assassination files in 30 years time?…….
And expose his Jewish masters and the CIA for what they are? Not a hope in hell!
Stalin from Ballybunion Rodger rabbit living in Dingle ,goat a King ,Healy raes what next Elvis working in the chipper
@Patrick Coffey: Elvis works for Coillte in West Cork.
Sure wasn’t it Lyin’ Ted’s old man?
Should be interesting!
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