Trump signs order to declassify JFK, MLK and RFK assassination files

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : "That's a big one," Trump said as put his signature to the order in the Oval Office.
65% : The order gives the director of national intelligence and attorney general 15 days to present a plan to Trump for the "full and complete" release of records for JFK and 45 days for a plan for the RFK and MLK documents.
54% : "Lot of people are waiting for this for a long -- for years and decades," Trump said as he signed the order on Thursday.
52% : When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood on stage with Trump in August after making his endorsement, Trump announced he would establish a "a new independent presidential commission on assassination attempts" tasked with releasing "all remaining documents pertaining to President John F. Kennedy's assassination and other events in question.
43% : "Trump has long vowed to make the information public.
35% : According to the White House text of the order, Trump has "now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information" on JFK "is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue.
26% : Last year, as he ran for president first as a Democrat then as an independent before endorsing Trump, RFK Jr. pushed a conspiracy theory that the CIA was directly involved in the assassination of JFK.

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