A lackluster response met the Trump White House’s eagerly awaited drop of what it promised would be thousands of previously classified documents into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
That’s because “many of the files related to the JFK assassination have already been disclosed, including a tranche of 13,000 documents released during the Biden administration,” CNN reported Tuesday. There was no immediate indication that the files contained bombshells in the over-six-decade-old case, the network added.
The release, which came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing their disclosure shortly after taking office, prompted political observers to take to social media to ridicule the little that was gleamed from the cache of documents.
“Several of the JFK files Trump released today are redacted and illegible,” PatriotTakes wrote on Bluesky.
“The JFK Files have been released, and you guessed it: vaxxed,” Toronto Star columnist Bruce Arthur told his Bluesky followers.
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"Wait. Was Ted Cruz’s (who is a d---, btw) dad really the mastermind?" asked Jeffery Timmer, a political strategist and senior adviser at the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, on X.
"WOW! Did Trump really just release all of the same JFK files that Biden released in 2023?" Trump critic Ed Krassenstein wrote on X.
“BREAKING: Many of the JFK files available were already released under the JFK 1992 act,” AdameMedia wrote on his X account.
Attorney Amee Vanderpool warned her followers on X: “Guys, Trump releasing the JFK files is only to serve as a distraction...look alive.”
“The JFK Files were supposed to drop today so I popped over to X to see if they happened just in time to see this from the extremely qualified and very competent DNI,” author Renee DiResta wrote on Bluesky of Tulsi Gabbard’s statement. “Site is down. Promises made, promises kept.”