Trump promises to release all JFK assassination files as RFK Jr endorses him

Former President Donald Trump has vowed totask a presidential commission to release all the files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy.

Trump made the announcement alongside Kennedy’s nephew Robert F Kennedy Jr at a campaign rally in Arizona on Friday.

The Republican presidential candidate said that if he’s elected to a second term, he would establish an independent presidential commission on assassination attempts which would handle the release of the JFK files.

This comes after Trump himself was the subject of an assassination attempt in July when the bullet of a would-be assassin grazed his ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Trump said he would task the commission with releasing the remaining documents regarding the Kennedy assassination.

“They will also conduct a rigorous review of the attack last month,” Trump said about his own assassination attempt.

About 4,700 files from the JFK case remain partially or heavily redacted. Kennedy Jr is the son of the former Attorney General and New York Senator Robert F Kennedy who was himself assassinated during his 1968 presidential campaign.

Trump said RFK Jr “lost his father and uncle in service to our country, and Bobby himself was subject to repeated threats to his safety during the course of his campaign.”

He added: “This is a tribute in honor of Bobby.”

During congressional testimony last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray said the gunman who took aim at Trump, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, searched for details on the JFK assassination ahead of the shooting which took the life of one rally attendee and left two others wounded.

The FBI director revealed last month that on July 6, the same day that he registered to attend the rally,