Ben Shapiro Mocks Conspiracists Combing JFK Files For ‘Smoking Gun’: ‘Spoiler Alert – It Was Lee Harvey Oswald!’
Ben Shapiro wasted no time bluntly dismantling the latest wave of conspiracy speculation following the Trump administration’s full release of classified government files on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
On Wednesday’s edition of The Ben Shapiro Show, the conservative commentator remarked at those hoping to uncover a game-changing revelation, ridiculing the frenzy surrounding the release and those “combing through these in search of the smoking gun that shows that it was the Cubans or the Russians or the CIA or the Israelis or something.”
I’m just going to break it to you right now. It was Lee Harvey Oswald. Spoiler alert, it was Lee Harvey Oswald. It was always Lee Harvey Oswald. The most credible theory about Lee Harvey Oswald is that he was some sort of Soviet agent, considering that he literally went to the Soviet Union and then he came back from the Soviet Union and he was at the Cuban embassy.
He continued:
All the conspiracy theorizing around JFK, while entertaining, is, in my opinion, specious and not just specious, in some cases, maliciously oriented.
The newly released files, comprising tens of thousands of pages, were made public on Tuesday after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
While historians are still sifting through the material, so far no significant new evidence has surfaced to challenge the long-held conclusion that Oswald acted alone.
Shapiro did praise the transparency of the document dump and Trump’s move to release information on the other assassinations. However, he was clear-eyed about the futility of trying to end decades of speculation. He argued:
Is it going to shut up the conspiracy theorists? Of course not. Because then the answer will be, well, of course the government didn’t take account of any of these files. I mean, it was the government that did it. Or there’s probably a secret box of documents somewhere. The sort of conspiracy theorizing that’s become incredibly popular on the right these days. It was popular on the left, and now it’s become increasingly popular on the right.
The kind of: ‘Let’s just ask questions. Who really killed JFK?’ Wink, wink, nod, nod. And then you’re like: ‘Well, do you have any evidence of the thing that you are…’ ‘Well, no, I’m not making any accusations. I just know I don’t believe the story that I’m being told. I know not to trust the authorities.’ Like, well, that’s fine. But do you have, like, any evidence? Like evidence, not just supposition.
Defending his skepticism, after mocking conspiracists who would accuse his dismissal of being suspect, he said he simply did not care:
The reason that I’m so defensive about all this is I don’t care who killed JFK. I mean, I do because it’s really interesting. But I noticed that the calendar says 2025 and he was killed in 1963.
Yeah. And so my opinion about who killed JFK has about as much relevance as who killed William McKinley, or James Garfield, which is to say not an enormous amount. It’s not going to change the world in any real way, barring the revelation that many of those same people are still in the government today. But I don’t expect that any of that is going to be in there. I would be, shall we say, rather shocked if that were the case.
But it’s not going to put conspiracies to bed because conspiracies have a life of their own.
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