Trump: I Will Create ‘Presidential Assassination Commission,’ Release All the JFK Assassination Files
Aug. 29—Overlooked by the media, former President Donald Trump told a large outdoor campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona. Aug. 23 that he does not believe the lies in the Warren Commission report that Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone, shot and killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963. In order to get to the bottom of this, and name those really responsible, Trump announced that he would, if elected President Nov. 5, “establish a new independent presidential commission on assassination attempts, and they will be tasked with releasing all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.”
While he was President, Trump had pledged to release all the Kennedy files, but had held some back, convinced to do so “for national security concerns” by his advisors, most importantly then CIA Director Mike Pompeo. He stated at the time in 2017 that “if you saw what I saw in these files, you would understand why I must do this.” He had been compelled to release all JFK files by the Presidential Assassination Records Act, that said they had to all be released within 25 years of its passage in 1992.
Sources report that what changed Trump's mind is the assassination attempt on him in Butler, Pennsylvania July 13. These sources say that Trump does on believe that the 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was the real assassin and there was likely a second shooter. As part of the sophisticated operation, Crooks, who was shot to death by a Secret Service sniper, was set up to be the fall guy. Trump is also said to believe that he is the target of “an international assassination bureau,” run through NATO and associated intelligence services, with the complicity of the FBI and Secret Service leadership.
In a Look magazine article right before his death in 1972, President Lyndon Johnson said the U.S. operated "a worldwide assassination bureau “and that is who killed Kennedy. Such theories have also been put forward by the former intelligence officer, the late Col. L. Fletcher Prouty, on whose work the Oliver Stone movie JFK is based, as well as historian James W. Douglass, author of JFK and the Unspeakable.
Trump said that the proposed commission would look into all assassinations, including the attempt on him in Butler, as well as assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who would have been nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate had he not been gunned down on the evening of June 5, 1968 after he had won the California primary.
On the podium with Trump in Glendale, was the son of RFK, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who had just suspended his independent campaign for President and endorsed Trump. Kennedy plans to remain on the ballot only in clearly “Red” (GOP) or “Blue” (Democratic) states; he will campaign for Trump, and will campaign for him, especially in key “battleground” states. Polls taken after Kennedy dropped out, show a boost for Trump in those states.
As his main reason for supporting Trump, Kennedy cited the former President’s pledge to end U.S. involvement in wars, and to end NATO’s war in the Ukraine, as well as Trump’s willingness to take on “Big Pharma,” and its war against the health of Americans, especially the children. Sources close to the Trump campaign said that the idea for the assassination commission came out of a meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month. Sources say Trump intends to appoint Kennedy to head the commission, and/or to take some other post in his administration. Kennedy has repeatedly said that Sirhan Sirhan, convicted and imprisoned for assassinating his father, did not shoot or kill RFK, nor does he believe that Lee Harvey Oswald killed his uncle.
Sources familiar with Kennedy’s thinking on the current Presidential race say that he came to realize that his candidacy was being used by the Democrat and NATO establishment to rig the election against Trump. This became very clear to him, as the Democrats were trying to keep him off the ballot in key states, including New York, and as a result, he would have no path to victory. Kennedy, like Trump, believes that the Democrat establishment and its media propaganda machine orchestrated a coup to remove the candidate from the race who had won all the delegates, Sleepy Joe Biden, and replace him with Vice President Kamala Harris, who never earned a delegate in either her 2020 campaign or in the present race. “Bobby wanted no part of what was going to be a rigged election,” said a source, “as they would try to siphon votes away from Trump in a 3-way race, while the media blared about how close it had become.” This and other sources say that Bobby was pleased with the respect shown by Trump for him and his issues, especially the fight against the NATO war machine and its financial backers.
Unfortunately, since Oct. 7, Kennedy has taken an insanely rabid pro-Israel stance defending the Jewish state against charges of genocide in the conduct the war in Gaza. This position hurt the standing of his campaign with many progressives and others. Lately, Kennedy has become a strong advocate of an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages, and has renewed his support for a two state-solution.
At the Glendale rally, Trump said that this time, he will release all the JFK records and let the chips fall where they may, turning them over to the commission. As he introduced Kennedy, thanking him for his endorsement, he reiterated that he would release the files and create the commission. “I will,” he told the crowd and a smiling RFK, Jr.
“He lost his father and uncle [who both died] in service to our country, and Bobby himself was subject to repeated threats to his safety during the course of his campaign.” Trump added, “This [the proposed commission] is a tribute, in honor of Bobby.”
Robert Kennedy, Jr.: ‘Why I Am Suspending My Campaign for President’
The following excerpts are from the transcript, “Why I Am Suspending My Campaign for President,” of an address to the nation by Robert Kennedy, Jr. from Phoenix, Arizona, Aug. 23.
In an honest system, I believe I would have won this election. In a system of open, fair primaries, with regularly scheduled debates, with a truly independent media untainted by government propaganda and censorship, in a system of nonpartisan courts and election boards, everything would be different. After all, polls consistently showed me beating each of the other candidates in both favorability and in every head-to-head matchup.
But I’m sorry to say that while democracy may still be alive at the grass roots, it has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, our media, and our government, and most sadly of all, for the Democratic Party.
In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it. Lacking confidence that its candidate could win at the voting booth, the DNC [Democratic National Committee] waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself. Each time our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court state by state, attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed. It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me—and other candidates—off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail. It ran a sham of a primary, rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden.
Then, when a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor—also without an election. They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate.
My uncles and my father both relished debate and prided themselves on their capacity to go toe-to-toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas. They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared for a single interview or unscripted encounter with voters in 35 days. This is profoundly undemocratic. How are people to choose, when they don’t know whom they are choosing? And how can this look to the rest of the world?…
Many months ago, I promised the American people that I would withdraw from the race if I became a spoiler. A “spoiler” is someone who will alter the outcome of the election but has no chance of winning. In my heart, I no longer believe I have a realistic path to electoral victory in the face of relentless, systemic censorship and media control. I cannot in good conscience ask my staff and volunteers to keep working long hours, or ask my donors to keep giving, when I cannot honestly tell them we have a path to the White House.
Furthermore, our polling consistently showed that by staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election to the Democrats with whom I disagree on the existential issues of censorship, war, and chronic disease.
I want everyone to know that I am only suspending my campaign, not terminating it. My name will still be on the ballot in most states. If you live in a blue state, you can vote for me without harming or helping President Trump or Vice President Harris. In red states—the same applies. I encourage you to do so. And if enough of you vote for me and neither of the major party candidates win 270 electoral votes, I could still end up in the White House in a contingent election.
But in about ten battleground states where my presence would be a spoiler, I will remove my name and urge voters not to vote for me….
Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place. These are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party, and then as an Independent, and now throw my support to President Trump.
· The cause of free speech.
· The war in Ukraine.
· The war on our children.
I’ve already described some of my personal experiences with government censorship-industrial complex.
I want to say a word about the Ukraine war. The military-industrial complex has provided us with the familiar comic-book justification that this war is a noble effort to stop supervillain Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and to thwart his Hitler-like march across Europe.
In fact, tiny Ukraine is a proxy in a geopolitical struggle initiated by the ambitions of the U.S. Neocons for U.S. global hegemony. I’m not excusing Putin for invading Ukraine. He had other options. But the war is Russia’s predictable response to the reckless Neocon project of extending NATO to encircle Russia.
The credulous media rarely explain to Americans that we unilaterally walked away from our two intermediate nuclear weapons treaties with Russia, and then put nuclear-ready Aegis missile systems in Romania and Poland, and that the Biden White House repeatedly spurned Russia’s offer to settle the dispute peacefully.
The Ukraine war began in 2014, when U.S. agencies overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine and installed a handpicked pro-West government that launched a civil war against ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
In 2019, America walked away from a peace treaty, the Minsk agreement that had been negotiated by European leadership.
In April 2022, President Biden sent Boris Johnson to Ukraine to force President Zelenskyy to tear up a peace treaty with President Putin that would have brought peace and left Donbass and Ukraine as part of Ukraine.
President Biden stated that month that his objective in the war was regime change in Russia.
His Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, said that America’s purpose in the war was to exhaust the Russian army to degrade its capacity to fight anywhere else.
These objectives of course had nothing to do with what they were telling Americans about protecting Ukraine’s sovereignty.
Since then, we have squandered the flower of Ukrainian youth. As many as 600,000 Ukrainian kids have died and Ukraine’s infrastructure is destroyed.
The war has been a disaster for our country. We squandered nearly $200 billion badly needed dollars. The Nord Stream pipeline sabotage and sanctions have destroyed Europe’s industrial base, which formed the bulwark of U.S. national security. We have pushed Russia into a disastrous alliance with China and Iran. We are closer to the brink of nuclear exchange than at any other time since 1962.
Our moral authority and our economy are in shambles, and the war gave rise to the emergence of BRICS, which now threatens to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency.
Judging by her bellicose, belligerent speech last night in Chicago, we can assume that [a] President Harris will be an enthusiastic advocate for this and other Neocon military adventures.
President Trump says that he will reopen negotiations with Putin and end the war overnight. This alone would justify my support for his campaign….
Following my first discussion with President Trump, I tried unsuccessfully to open up similar discussions with the Harris campaign. Vice President Harris declined to meet or speak with me. Suspending my candidacy is a heart-rending decision for me. But I am convinced that it is the best hope for ending the Ukraine war and ending the chronic disease epidemic that is eroding our nation’s vitality from the inside and for protecting free speech. I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children….
Ultimately, the only thing that will save our children and our country is if we choose to love them more than we hate each other. That’s why I launched my campaign to unify this country. My dad and my uncle made such an enduring mark on the character of our nation not so much because of any particular policy, but because they were able to inspire profound love for our country and to fortify our sense of ourselves as a national community held together by shared ideals. They were able to put their love into the intentions and hearts of ordinary Americans, and to unify a national populist movement of all Americans—of Blacks and Whites and Hispanics, urban and rural. They inspired affection, love, high hopes, and a culture of kindness that continues to radiate from their memories.
That is the spirit on which I ran my campaign, and that I intend to bring into the campaign of President Trump. Instead of vitriol and polarization, I will appeal to the values that unite us, the goals we could achieve if only we weren’t at each other’s throats. The most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children. If we all unite around this issue now, we will finally give them the protection, the health, and the future that they deserve.