The grandson of late President John F. Kennedy has spoken out after Donald Trump ordered for documents regarding his death be declassified.
The 47th President of the USA, who was sworn in on Monday (20 January), hasn’t wasted any time since moving back into the White House.
He has already signed a host of executive orders, made an extreme law change, had a reshuffle of staff and most importantly, got his Diet Coke button reinstalled in the Oval Office.
And on Thursday (23 January), Trump stunned the world by ordering officials to make plans to declassify documents related to three of the most high-profile assassinations on US soil.
The files on the murders of JFK, Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King’s will be made public within 15 days, according to the BBC.
“A lot of people are waiting for this for long, for years, for decades,” Trump told reporters. “And everything will be revealed.”
The President had previously discussed the prospect of releasing the classified documents on JFK during an appearance on Joe Rogan‘s podcast last year.
The revelation came before Trump announced JFK’s nephew, Robert F Kennedy Jr (known as RFK), was his presumptive nominee for United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in his second cabinet.
During the election campaign, Trump promised RFK to reveal more about what happened to his relative.
Now, JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg has spoken out about his thoughts on declassifying the documents detailing the 1968 murder.
He accused the commander in chief of using his relative as a ‘politic prop’ in a social media post.
In a post on X, Schlossberg wrote: “JFK conspiracy theories – The truth is a lot sadder than the myth – a tragedy that didn’t need to happen.
“Not part of an inevitable grand scheme.”
The political correspondent, 32, then added: “Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back. There’s nothing heroic about it.”
JFK was shot in the head as he drove through Dallas, Texas, in November 1963, with Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly pulling the trigger.
Trump told Rogan about the JFK files: “I did partially open [the files]. I think I’ve opened 50 percent but I was asked not to do it, and I thought that was a reasonable ask.
“But now I’m going to do it I’m going to do it very soon there’s a lot of interest in it.”
