Self explanatory. I’m pasting in what appeared at FR. You can follow the link to the original. BTW, RFK is not saying he was astonished when he found out who “begged” Trump. He’s saying he’s astonished that Trump gave in.
Watch: RFK Jr. Tells Tucker Carlson Who Held Trump Back, 'Begged' Him Not to Release JFK Files - 'I Was Astonished'
Western Journal ^ | August 27, 2024 | Samantha ChangIn his first interview since dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing former President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped a bombshell about the 1963 assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy.
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RFK Jr. told Carlson that Mike Pompeo — Trump’s former CIA director — had “begged” the 45th president not to declassify the CIA files concerning the assassination of his uncle.
Pompeo later went on to become Trump’s secretary of state.
According to Kennedy, this cover-up was ostensibly done to hide the agency’s involvement in the JFK murder plot.
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And I think everyone at this point knows the truth, which is the CIA is implicated in that. Those documents protect CIA, maybe, among others.”
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RFK Jr: “More than 60 years after my uncle’s death … none of the people who were implicated in that crime are alive now. ... it clearly is to protect the [CIA]. And that’s wrong.”
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Carlson remarked: “It’s just interesting … that a bipartisan list of presidents these six decades have kept those files classified.”
RFK Jr: “I was astonished that Trump didn’t declassify them because he promised to during the [2016] campaign.”
Carlson interjected: “That was Mike Pompeo who did that.”
Kennedy: “Yeah. I talked to President Trump for the first time about that this week. He said that Mike Pompeo begged him to. … He said that Mike Pompeo called him and said, ‘This would be a catastrophe to release these. You need to not do it.'”
Carlson: “I want to say again that I think that Mike Pompeo is a criminal. So that’s my view. He’s threatened to sue me for saying that. But I hope he will, because it’s true.”
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I can’t think of anything that would be more healing for the American Republic than to learn the whole truth about the Kennedy assassination and about the CIA.
Could it be that Trump's knowledge of the facts behind the coverup is useful protection/leverage for Trump? When 'they' finally decide to take him down/out Trump will have a few cards of his own to play? The same thing has been suggested regarding original copies of papers the FBI thought they would find at Mar-a-Lago, but were apparently unable to. Trump's still got them.
The Art of the Deal?
If Pompeo is allowed by DJT to get anywhere near any levers of power, then either DJT has learnt nothing, or he’s not exactly in charge. These twisted ‘we cheated, we lied, we stole, ha ha ha’ types are psychos from the dark side. He’s a chip off the old block, Casey: “We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false".