Trump Can’t Answer When Peter Doocy Asks Simple Question: ‘Who Killed Kennedy?’

 

President Donald Trump was flat-out asked by Fox News’ Peter Doocy, “Who killed Kennedy?” at the end of an Oval Office press gathering to announce a new fighter jet.

Late Wednesday, roughly 80,000 previously unreleased documents were made public per Trump’s direction, creating something of a feeding frenzy among conspiracy theorists that there was more to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in the early ’60s. In the days that followed, the big reveals seemed to be limited primarily to CIA and FBI processes that had previously been kept secret.

So it is in this context that Doocy asked Trump, “Mr. President, 80,000 pages of documents is a lot to sift through. Can you just tell us who killed Kennedy?”

The TLDR of Trump’s answer? Do your own research. But what did he actually say? Nothing specific in terms of Doocy’s precise question:

Well, you know, I was given the task of releasing that, because many presidents have gone through it and they haven’t released. And I said, release. We even released Social Security numbers. I didn’t want anything deleted. They said, sir, what about Social Security? People long gone. But they’re long gone, so I can’t imagine.

But I said, if you don’t delete it, if you do delete it, we have people that are going to say, why did you delete it? There’s something in there. So we gave Social Security, and we gave everything. And the rest is for you to look at, Peter. You’re going to see whether or not you see anything. But we’ve given it. We’re doing it with Dr. Martin Luther King, too. They’re preparing all of that. They’re going to release everything. and whoever else they want. I mean, you know, we have nothing. We really have nothing to hide. We shouldn’t have.

You know, when a lot of time goes by. But with the Kennedy files, in particular, they were going crazy on them. I don’t think there’s anything. that’s earth-shattering, but you’ll have to make that determination. In those, you know, it’s 80,000. It’s actually 88,000. And we have some additional things, as you know, come out today. And for that, you can go to the offices and you can see whatever you want to see. Everything is out there, totally open. The additional stuff is available later on today. You go over to the offices and you can have it immediately. And you’ll make a determination.

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