JFK assassination, UFOs and depression: 6 highlights from Trump's interview with Joe Rogan
JFK assassination files
Rogan also brought up the files regarding the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, portions of which remain classified more than 60 years later.
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Noting how Trump had previously pledged to declassify all the JFK files, Rogan asked him why he decided to backtrack on that promise, to which Trump responded by asserting that he was convinced based on what others had told him, but that he will finally open all of them if he takes office again.
“I opened them up partially. I was met with — from good people, I mean, you know, look at me, good people, people that were well-meaning, Mike Pompeo was one of them, he’s a good person. Uh, they called me, they said, ‘Sir, would rather have you not.’ After — and I did open them, but I was asked by some people not to open them,” Trump said.
“There’s a Martin Luther King file too, by the way, that they’d like to see, I don’t know if you know, but there is that, but JFK in particular,” Trump continued. “So they call me, a lot of good people call me, people that I, you know, that you would find reasonable people, and they asked me not to do it so I said, well, we’ll close it for another time. But if I win, I’m going to open them up.”
When Rogan pressed Trump to explain why he hesitated to release all the records before, he suggested there are people who were involved who are still alive.
“Addresses, people that are still living, there are people that are affected, and there could be some national security reason that for, you know, that I don’t have to necessarily know about, but some very good talented people asked me not to do it,” Trump said. “I opened it up, and then they said, would it be possible for us to do that a different day?”
