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Interesting tweet from the US president.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump . 12h
Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.
I wonder if there will be any bombshells in there?
No doubt he will do whatever is in the very best interests of ...
It’s one way of distracting from his utter **** wittery of a presidency I suppose.
So it's a 25 year old law, nothing to do with Trump?
Reminds me of this scene from Yes Minister -
James Hacker: [reads memo] This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967...
James Hacker: Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.
James Hacker: [reads] Some records which went astray in the move to London and others when the War Office was incorporated in the Ministry of Defence, and the normal withdrawal of papers whose publication could give grounds for an action for libel or breach of confidence or cause embarrassment to friendly governments.
James Hacker: That's pretty comprehensive. How many does that normally leave for them to look at?
James Hacker: How many does it actually leave? About a hundred?... Fifty?... Ten?... Five?... Four?... Three?... Two?... One?... *Zero?*
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, Minister.
Obama and Clinton are currently under investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding Uranium One corruption, bribery, collusion and pay-to-play with the Russians. The case was covered up by Comey, Meuller, McCabe and Rosenstein, the very same people in charge of investigating Trump for Russian collusion.
Odd reply. I haven't said they shouldn't be released, although they'll be redacted so much that there'll be little of interest to anyone except the genuine simpletons who love a conspiracy theory.
We won't find out if Ted Cruz's father was mates with Harvey Oswald as Trump said during his campaign.
Trump does / permits what he thinks will bring him some win.
Cant blame him for that, he could certainly do with some and it would hardly be different - in that respect - to any other ex-president.
Though he'll probably manage to shoot himself in the ..foot in the process. Pardon the expression.
If you take the decision maker out of the equation, then in my opinion releasing the documents is the right thing to do. If the current decision maker were to keep the records sealed, then I think it would be the wrong decision. It doesn't matter who the president is as long as they make the correct decision for the people, as opposed to appeasing those who may have something to lose.