Trump’s release of the JFK files is a fiasco

The Trump administration seems to have published, perhaps a bit too hastily, more than 64,000 pages on the JFK assassination in the last few days. 

This occurred after a statement from Trump saying that all classified documents related to the assassination would be made public the day after his announcement.

In the rush to make public all the classified JFK documents, after the other fail of Jeffrey Epstein’s files, personal information of over 200 people, directly or indirectly related to the JFK investigation, has been disclosed.

Among the victims of this clumsy leak of information from the Trump administration are former congressional assistants, whose data was not properly protected in the thousands of pages made public by Trump.

According to ABC News, nearly half of the individuals involved are between 70 and 90 years old and some people have already been confirmed to be still alive, which raises concerns.

Among the disclosed personal information, one can find names, birth dates, birthplaces, and social security numbers. This exposes these individuals to an elevated risk of fraud, identity theft, or even retaliation.

Let’s recall that among the declassified documents published by the Trump administration, we find detailed information about the investigation and the individuals involved. However, no major revelation has changed the understanding of the assassination.

Although some interesting elements, such as links with influential individuals, have been revealed, the extent of the files did not provided definitive answers to the mysteries surrounding this historical event, remaining consistent with what was already known to the public.

In 2022, the Biden administration declassified about 13,000 pages of documents related to the JFK assassination, followed by an additional 13,000 pages in 2023, bringing the total to nearly 30,000 pages.

The declassified pages by the Biden administration are included in the total of over 80,000 pages made public by the Trump administration in 2025. This declassification was part of the implementation of the 1992 law on collecting JFK assassination archives.

The Biden administration took care to protect the sensitive personal information of individuals mentioned in these files, expunging private data before their publication. However, it seems that this same precaution was not observed by the Trump administration.