Trump ordered release of JFK, RFK and MLK assassination records: Here's the King family's response

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Trump has nominated Kennedy's nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to be the health secretary in his new administration.
54% : The order is among a flurry of executive actions Trump has quickly taken the first week of his second term.
54% : Speaking to reporters, Trump said, "everything will be revealed.
52% : "Shortly after the news broke about Trump's order Thursday, the social media accounts for the King Center and its CEO, Bernice King, youngest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, issued this statement: "Today, our family has learned that President Trump has ordered the declassification of the remaining records pertaining to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and our father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
50% : Trump made a similar pledge during his first term, but ultimately bent to appeals from the CIA and FBI to withhold some documents.
39% : The executive order Trump signed Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
29% : "During his first term, Trump boasted that he'd allow the release of all of the remaining records on the president's assassination but ended up holding some back because of what he called the potential harm to national security.
24% : Trump handed the pen used to sign the order to an aide and directed it to be given to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Only a few thousand of the millions of governmental records related to the assassination of President Kennedy have yet to be fully declassified.
13% : Trump had promised during his reelection campaign to make public the last batches of still-classified documents surrounding President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, which has transfixed people for decades.

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