Trump also delays JFK files! Why?

No president has insisted on the release of the secret John F. Kennedy assassination files more than President Donald J. Trump. Last Oct. 17, he tweeted, “Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the longblocked and classified JFK files to be opened.” Then six days later, “After strict consultation with General Kelly, the CIA and other Agencies, I will be releasing all JFK files other than the names and addresses of any mentioned person who is still living.”

When the CIA and FBI refused to comply, he gave them a deadline of April 26, 2018. When they still refused his direct order on the basis that release could harm “identifiable national security, law enforcement and foreign affairs concerns,” Trump extended the date by three years to Oct. 26, 2021. Why?

Based upon what we know now, the assassination was a conspiracy. The vast majority of those old enough to remember the assassination believe it to have been; the more than 2,000 books written on the subject show or argue that there were other bad players in the event; Dr. Charles Crenshaw, an operating surgeon who placed Kennedy in the coffin at Parkland Hospital, testified the neck wound was an entry wound proving more than a single assassin. Thirteen years later, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1976 concluded: “President John F. Kennedy was