In his first interview since exiting the presidential race and endorsing former President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a startling revelation about the 1963 assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, during a discussion with journalist Tucker Carlson.
In an X interview posted on Monday, RFK Jr. told Carlson that Mike Pompeo, Trump’s former CIA director, had “begged” the 45th president not to declassify the CIA files concerning his uncle’s assassination. Pompeo later became Trump’s secretary of state. According to Kennedy, this cover-up was ostensibly done to hide the CIA’s involvement in the JFK murder plot.
“In your joint appearance on Friday, President Trump introduced you by saying that he plans to, if elected, establish a commission to declassify the remaining documents around your uncle’s murder in 1963,” Carlson said. “And I think everyone at this point knows the truth, which is the CIA is implicated in that. Those documents protect CIA, maybe, among others.”
Kennedy responded, “Whether they do or not, it’s odd that they’ve not allowed them to be released.”
Carlson asked, “What could possibly be the explanation?”
RFK Jr. replied, “More than 60 years after my uncle’s death … none of the people who were implicated in that crime are alive now. And the last ones have died off in the last year or two. And so, it clearly is to protect the [CIA]. And that’s wrong.”
“Yes,” Carlson agreed, nodding.
Kennedy added, “It’s just wrong. It’s wrong for Democrats, and it’s wrong for Republicans.”
Carlson noted, “It’s just interesting … that a bipartisan list of presidents these six decades have kept those files classified.”
RFK Jr. expressed surprise that Trump hadn’t declassified them despite his campaign promise in 2016. Carlson interjected, “That was Mike Pompeo who did that.”
Kennedy elaborated, “Yeah. I talked to President Trump for the first time about that this week. He said that Mike Pompeo begged him to. … He said that Mike Pompeo called him and said, ‘This would be a catastrophe to release these. You need to not do it.’”
Carlson responded, “I want to say again that I think that Mike Pompeo is a criminal. So that’s my view. He’s threatened to sue me for saying that. But I hope he will, because it’s true.”
He continued, “But that kind of tells the whole story right there, right? Why would the CIA be trying to keep these files classified if they had nothing to do with the murder? I don’t really get that.”
The JFK assassination has sparked numerous conspiracy theories over the decades as public trust in the CIA and the Washington establishment has eroded.
The public has been misled so many times about major events — including the Russian collusion hoax, the coronavirus pandemic, and President Joe Biden’s re-election bid, among others — that it no longer blindly accepts the government’s “official” narratives.
Hopefully, Trump will win re-election by a landslide and release the JFK files. More importantly, here’s to hoping that a Trump victory will bring about a strong economy, secure borders, an end to U.S. involvement in foreign wars, and a return of American exceptionalism.
