Will Trump Buckle Again on the JFK Records?

 A fascinating situation has now developed between President-elect Donald Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment with respect to the long-secret JKF-assassination-related records that the CIA has succeeded in keeping secret for more than 60 years. Despite Trump’s campaign vow to release those records, it’s not at all clear how this matter is going to be resolved. I will give my prediction at the end of this article.

There are three major factors at play:

1. During his 2024 campaign, Trump vowed that this time around he is definitely going to order the National Archives to release those 60-year-old secret CIA records. Moreover, as he told Joe Rogan, he is going to do it “immediately.” See “Trump to Rogan: If Elected, I’ll Open Remaining JFK Files ‘Immediately’” by Jefferson Morley.

Let’s place this first factor in a historical context.

The JFK Records Act, which was enacted in 1992, ordered the national-security establishment and all other federal agencies to disclose their JFK-assassination-related records to the public.

However, the law gave federal officials an out. If they claimed that the release of certain records might jeopardize “national security” in various ways, they could keep them secret for another 25 years. Yes, 25 additional years of secrecy, on top of the secrecy from 1963 to the 1990s! Taking advantage of that out, the national-security establishment, especially the CIA, continued keeping thousands of its assassination-related records secret.

That 25-year-period ran out during Trump’s first term as president. At first, Trump declared valiantly that he was going to comply with the law and permit the National Archives to release and disclose the records.

But then just before the deadline arrived, Trump was visited by the CIA, who insisted on continued secrecy of its assassination-related records.

Trump immediately buckled. While allowing some records to be released, he did what the CIA wanted him to do and ordered that thousands of other records continue to be kept secret for another few years.

When the new deadline occurred under President Biden, the CIA convinced Biden to continue the secrecy of the records into perpetuity. Thus, the CIA felt it could now sleep easy, knowing that its long-secret assassination-related records would never see the light of day.

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Israel, Blackmail and the Presidents

Just days before Election Day, Wikileaks reported: “Author of book about the Trump White House, Michael Wolff, claims to have 100 hours of Epstein talking about Trump but releases only a one minute fragment.” More along these lines is now atop pages like The Daily Beast with journalistic scoops like “Epstein claiming Trump liked to ‘f—’ his friends’ wives”.

I didn’t realize until recently that Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s stepfather, Samuel Pisar — who Blinken has invoked at high profile events — was not only lawyer and confidant to media mogul and Mossad “super spy” Robert Maxwell but apparently to Jeffrey Epstein himself. (Updated meme of flowchart making these connections.)

Robert Maxwell was of course father of Ghislaine Maxwell who was Epstein’s partner in crime.

It has been largely kept from public view and understanding in numerous ways, but there is substantial evidence that the Epstein network was involved in gathering information on political figures from both parties which could be used for blackmail. The molesting of the girls was often apparently the insidious means, not the ultimate goal. The above referenced Daily Beast piece, to take the most recent example, does not contain the word “blackmail”.

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Unraveling JFK: The Conspiracy Theories That Just Won’t Die

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 remains a subject of intense scrutiny and debate, particularly within the context of modern political discourse. Recent conversations, especially among supporters of former President Donald Trump, have revived interest in various conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy’s death. Many attendees of commemorative events at Dealey Plaza express doubts about the official government narrative, which claims that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

The Warren Commission, established to investigate the assassination, concluded in its 1964 report that Oswald was the sole shooter. However, decades of skepticism surrounding this conclusion have fueled alternative theories. Recent polling data indicates that approximately 65% of Americans question the findings of the Warren Commission, suggesting a persistent mistrust of official narratives.

Individuals like Nelson Vargas and Jeff Fulginiti have come forward, suggesting that the assassination involved wider conspiracies that included elements of the military-industrial complex, organized crime, and possibly even high-ranking government officials. Vargas articulated his belief that government entities collaborated to orchestrate Kennedy’s death, while Fulginiti pointed out the apparent motives behind these factions.

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It’s Time to Rationally Re-Investigate the JFK Assassination

A few weeks ago, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspended his presidential campaign to endorse former President Trump. As Kennedy joined Trump on stage, Trump announced that, if he is elected, he will immediately declassify all records related to the JFK Assassination that continue to be held by the National Archives – something Trump failed to do during his last term. Trump also announced that he would form a commission on assassinations, which would include looking at his own assassination attempt, and the murders of Robert Kennedy, Sr. and President John F. Kennedy.   

Whether it is former President Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris, America desperately needs leadership that will provide transparency into these historical events. While the declassification of remaining JFK assassination records would be a wonderful development, the most important thing that could be done to regain the trust of Americans in their intelligence agencies is to reopen the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 

Most Americans know that the Warren Commission determined in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone to kill President Kennedy. Fewer Americans are aware of the conclusion of a congressional committee – the House Select Committee on Assassinations – in 1978 that President Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.” Yes, you read that correctly. The recent government investigation into the JFK Assassination determined that there was a conspiracy. 

After Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, was released in 1991, the public outcry to remove the shroud of secrecy around this historical event resulted in the JFK Records Act, which was passed unanimously and signed into law by George H. W. Bush. The JFK Records Act required the declassification of records and created the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), which forced the respective agencies to turn over records and sit for depositions. 

The work of the ARRB and subsequent declassified documents led to a mountain of new information about the assassination that has now had sufficient time to be absorbed by JFK Assassination scholars. The weight of that evidence now establishes by a standard of clear and convincing evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone to kill President Kennedy. 

So, what evidence has been unearthed that would justify the time and resources of reopening the JFK Assassination? There are at least ten indisputable facts that establish that President Kennedy was killed as the result of a conspiracy, all of which are explored in depth in a book that I co-authored with James DiEugenio, Paul Bleau, Andrew Iler and Mark Adamczyk called The JFK Assassination Chokeholds

  • Interviews with numerous insiders who worked on previous investigations, from the Warren Commission to the HSCA to the ARRB, confirm that the Warren Commission got it wrong. 
  • Oswald had indisputable connections to intelligence agencies. 
  • Oswald was impersonated by others on numerous documented occasions. 
  • Oswald could not have been on the sixth floor when the shots were fired. 
  • Jack Ruby’s murder of Oswald was not in the heat of passion. It was premeditated. 
  • There were at least two other prior plots to kill President Kennedy before Dallas. 
  • Best practices for conducting autopsies were not followed for President Kennedy, resulting in an evidentiary mess. 
  • The single bullet theory cannot be true. 
  • There is overwhelming evidence of shots fired in front of President Kennedy. 
  • There has been sixty years of obstruction of justice, which was apparent in each investigation, and continues to exist today. 

When we put these bodies of evidence together, it is clear that President Kennedy was not killed by a lone assassin. Researchers and authors have speculated as to who was behind the conspiracy and whether Oswald was involved at all over the years. Still, we do not know exactly who killed President Kennedy. 

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New Film Commemorates Legacy Of Lawyer Who Exposed Conspiracy To Murder MLK

 Conventional wisdom holds that James Earl Ray was a deranged white supremacist who killed Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968.

Research carried out by King family attorney William F. Pepper determined, however, that King was really killed in a conspiracy coordinated by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

Pepper died in April. He is the focus of a new film by John Barbour, with Len Osanic, A Tribute to William Pepper, that was screened on July 30 at American University at the 12th Annual Whistleblower Summit in Washington, D.C.

Barbour is a Canadian-born comedian, actor and TV host who directed two documentary films on Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney who uncovered a conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy that involved elements of the CIA.

In introducing his film, Barbour said that Pepper and Garrison should be regarded, along with Abraham Lincoln, as among the greatest lawyers in U.S. history.

A Tribute to William Pepper begins by detailing the friendship that developed between Pepper and King after Pepper wrote an article in the countercultural magazine Ramparts in 1967 about the use of napalm in Vietnam called “The Children of Vietnam.”

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Sen. Hawley Releases Whistleblower Report on First Trump Assassination Attempt

On Monday Sen. Josh Hawley, (R-Mo) released a whistleblower report regarding the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. The report is subtitled ‘Failures of The United States Secret Service in Connection with the Attempted Assassination of Former President Donald J. Trump’.

Most notably, the report detailed three revelations from whistleblowers which have not been reported prior to its publication on Monday.

“The lead agent responsible for the entire Butler visit, including the rally, failed a key examination during their federal law enforcement training to become a Secret Service agent,” the report said on page 2.

“Secret Service intelligence units—teams of Secret Service agents paired with state and local law enforcement to handle reports of suspicious persons—were absent from the Butler rally,” the report said on page 2.

“The hospital site where former President Trump received treatment after the shooting was poorly secured, and the hospital site agent could not answer basic questions about site security,” the report said on page 2.

The lack of federal transparency has caused investigations to turn toward whistleblowers.

“…sources with direct knowledge of Secret Service’s own internal investigation have alleged to Senator Hawley that the Department of Homeland Security is leaning on Secret Service not to comply with document requests from Congress. Instead, it has been left to courageous whistleblowers to tell the story of what really happened,” the report said on page 16.

The report began by summarizing the fateful day of July 13 followed by detailing federal agency behaviors indicative of elusion and obfuscation surrounding the attempted assassination.

“Following this catastrophic failure, the Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have all tried to evade real accountability. These agencies and their leaders have slow-walked congressional investigations, misled the American people, and shirked responsibility,” the report said on page 1.

The report went on to describe the response taken by Hawley to this federal inaction.

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Sen. Hawley: New Whistleblowers Say Secret Agents Usually Have Agent Stationed on Known High Risks Areas at the Golf Course, But During Trump’s Assassination Attempt NO ONE was There

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) sounded the alarm over shocking new revelations from whistleblowers regarding the security breach that nearly resulted in the assassination of former President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf club.

According to whistleblower reports received by Hawley’s office, the Secret Service failed to station agents at known vulnerable spots on the course—a violation of standard protocol that left the 45th president exposed during the attack.

The chilling details emerged during an interview Hawley conducted with Jesse Watters on Fox News.

The Senator expressed deep concern over the lapses, noting that agents who were typically positioned in high-risk areas were inexplicably absent the day Trump was targeted by 58-year-old Trump-hater Ryan Wesley Routh.

Routh was armed with a rifle and managed to breach the course’s perimeter before Secret Service agents took him down.

According to the federal criminal complaint filed last week, Routh began his sinister operation early Sunday morning. His cell phone data indicated he arrived at the golf course vicinity at approximately 1:59 a.m., positioning himself for nearly 12 hours before the assassination attempt.

Hawley revealed that the golf course Trump was playing on has long been monitored by the Secret Service, with agents typically stationed at specific locations known to be vulnerable. However, whistleblowers claim that during this incident, no agents were in place to secure these high-risk areas.

“That golf course the President was playing, the Secret Service has guarded that course many, many times,” said Hawley.

“What the whistleblower says is, protocol calls for the Secret Service to station agents along the places in the course that are known vulnerabilities. I want to emphasize, the service has guarded this course many times. They know where the vulnerabilities are.”

“They normally station agents there ahead of Trump’s appearance on the course, but they apparently did not do that this last weekend. The whistleblowers tell me that’s strange. That’s out of protocol. It’s not even clear the Secret Service swept the perimeter before Trump took to the course, which is also a breach of protocol. They want to know why, and so do I. I think the Secret Service deserves to give us answers.”

The shocking revelation comes just two months after Trump narrowly survived another assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a Democrat donor, Thomas Crooks, almost succeeded in his plot to kill the former president.

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The Odd Connections Between David Becker, Georgia Election Officials, Sunoco Oil And A GA Election Organization You Likely Have Never Heard Of

In telling the story – it’s hard to judge where to start, but let’s begin with David Becker. Mr. Becker founded an organization known as the Center for Election Innovation and Research, better known as CEIR.

Prior to forming the organization Becker was a Director at PEW Charitible Trust and founded the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) with which Georgia contracts to “clean” our voter rolls.

A number of States have already exited their agreements with ERIC citing a variety of concerns including errors, lack of information regarding their operations and security measures.  In at least one case, an official from another State travelled to ERIC’ listed headquarters only to find no evidence of systems or staff at the address listed.

PEW Charitible Trusts, where Becker was a Director, gets its name from the PEW family who made their fortune largely through Sunoco Oil.

Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger and Jamie Raskin, (Representative from Maryland and member of the infamous J6 Committee) were highlighted speakers at CEIR’s “secret” meeting in Washington DC last year.

David Becker also started EOLDN, Election Official Legal Defense Network claiming election officials around the country needed a method for protecting themselves legally.

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Rep. Matt Gaetz Says DHS Source Told Him There Are Five “Assassination Teams” Inside U.S. Targeting Trump

Congressman Matt Gaetz warns that a senior DHS official told him there are at least five “assassination teams” inside the United States targeting Donald Trump.

Gaetz made the comments after gunman Ryan Routh tried to kill the former president after hiding in the bushes for nearly 12 hours outside Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

Routh somehow knew where Trump would be to within 500 yards despite the round of golf not being on the former president’s schedule and the decision to play being last minute.

Florida Republican Rep. Gaetz told the Real America’s Voice podcast that even before the second assassination attempt, he was given some shocking news.

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