A hoodie-clad Jack Schlossberg raged at CNN after President Donald Trump made good on his declaration to release over 80,000 pages of secret documents related to the assassination of JFK.
The thousands of pages documents were posted on the National Archives website on Thursday evening.
Trump earlier in the week called the massive trove ‘interesting’ but gave little hint of what will be in it, leaving conspiracy theorists on tenterhooks.
Schlossberg posted a video to X from the gym, enraged that the media was even covering the drop.
‘You’re better than this, this is so f***ing stupid. There’s so much actual news going on,’ he said.
Meanwhile, historians have complained of the release being ‘impenetrable’ and disorganized as they claim it will take days to open every file.
A hoodie-clad Jack Schlossberg raged at CNN after President Donald Trump made good on his declaration to release over 80,000 pages of secret documents related to the assassination of JFK
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JFK files released after Trump drops over 80,000 pages of secretive documents
Donald Trump kept a major campaign promise by dropping over 80,000 pages of secretive documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Historians speaking to the mainstream media have suggested there’s not much new out there in the JFK files and what’s been released is disorganized and will be hard to parse through regardless.
However, Trump celebrated the release, citing a statement by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stating it ushered in ‘a new era of transparency.’
Breaking:JFK files RELEASED after Trump pledged to reveal the truth behind the infamous assassination
Top secret files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have finally been released.
The bombshell documents were published on the website of the National Archives on Tuesday.
It came roughly 24 hours after President Donald Trump announced that a trove of 80,000 pages of new material would be revealed.
Donald Trump promotes JFK files drop in Truth Social post
President Donald Trump promoted the JFK files release that he himself ordered in a post to Truth Social Tuesday.
He published a screenshot of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard proclaiming that the drop represented Trump ushering in ‘a new era of transparency.’
Trump himself didn’t comment on the release but simply posted a link to the files on his social media page.
MLK biographer says unlikely any bombshell reveals in file drop
An author who recently won the Pulitzer Prize for a biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. says the files released related to the assassination of the civil rights leader are not likely to lead anyone to find anything new.
The MLK assassination files were released alongside those of President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy on Tuesday.
Jonathan Eig, who published last year’s lauded book ‘King: A Life’ told the New York Times he’s set to review the files.
However, he’s not expecting anything surprising.
‘I would be very surprised if there was some kind of smoking gun, or revelation of an alternate assassin.’
King was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968.
Historians criticize JFK files release as 'disorganized' while not finding anything new
Historians speaking to the mainstream media have suggested there’s not much new out there in the JFK files and what’s been released is disorganized and will be hard to parse through regardless.
Historian David J. Garrow told the New York Times ‘this dump is profoundly more impenetrable than all the previous more annotated ones.’
Garrow suggested it would take him two days just to open up all of the released 80,000 pages of documents.
John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault – which boasts of being the ‘largest privately run online repository of declassified government documents’ – similarly complained about the organization of the files.
Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of ‘The Kennedy Half-Century,’ said he had a team that started going through the documents but it may be some time before their full significance becomes clear.
‘We have a lot of work to do for a long time to come, and people just have to accept that,’ he said.
Sabato said that his team has a ‘long, long list’ of sensitive documents it is looking for that previously had large redactions.
‘There must be something really, really sensitive for them to redact a paragraph or a page or multiple pages in a document like that,’ he said. ‘Some of it’s about Cuba, some of it’s about what the CIA did or didn’t do relevant to Lee Harvey Oswald.’
JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg melts down in video after seeing coverage of files release on CNN
Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s only grandson, went on a rant while watching CNN at his local gym and saw that they were covering the JFK files’ release.
It follows up a post to X where he wrote: ‘Hey ALL NEWS NETWORKS CNN MSNBC WHATEVER you don’t need to cover the fake JFK documents story Especially when there’s so much real news.’
In a video posted from the gym, Schlossberg was furious that CNN’s Erin Burnett and Harry Enten were discussing the drop.
‘You’re better than this, this is so f***ing stupid. There’s so much actual news going on,’ he said.
‘Why are you covering this? At least report that something happened. I love you, Harry Enten, you’re really smart. I love you, Erin Burnett, you’re really smart, why are you covering this?’
‘Stop! This is why this s**t takes hold, because you guys f***ing cover it over and over again!’
Tulsi Gabbard praises Trump's 'maximum transparency'
Trump fires two Democratic FTC commissioners
President Donald Trump fired the two remaining Democratic commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, leaving only Republicans left on what is supposed to be an independent agency.
Both Commissioners Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya released statements asserting that their firings were illegal.
‘The president just illegally fired me,’ Bedoya wrote in his statement posted on X.
‘The FTC is an independent agency founded 111 years ago to fight fraudsters and monopolists. Our staff is unafraid of the Martin Shkrelis and Jeff Bezos of the world. They take them to court and they win. Now, the president wants the FTC to be a lapdog for his golfing buddies,’ he continued.
Bedoya called it ‘corruption plain and simple’ and wrote he would see the president in court.
In a separate statement, Slaughter said the law ‘protects the independence of the Commission because the law serves the American people, not corporate power.’
She said that removing opposition voices may not change what the Trump majority can do, but ‘it does change whether they will have accountability when they do it.’
Slaughter noted that she has served across administration including the last Trump administration.
She called it her ‘greatest honor to serve.’
Pete Hegseth slashes 60,000 Pentagon civilian jobs in massive purge sending shockwaves
Massive DOGE cuts are hitting both war and peace this week.
A day after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency decapitated the U.S. institute of Peace, a congressionally funded independent nonprofit group, the Defense Department made moves to slash the Pentagon’s civilian workforce.
Pentagon leaders are looking to slice between 50,000 and 60,000 civilian jobs from the agency.
So far, fewer than 21,000 took the government up on Musk’s ‘fork in the road’ email offer allowing employees to take ‘deferred resignation,’ according to a senior defense official.
Zelensky reacts to Trump-Putin call
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky indicated he was in favor of an ‘energy and infrastructure ceasefire’ with Russia but wants to hear more from President Donald Trump first.
‘I count on having a conversation with President Trump. We will understand the details. We have always supported the ceasefire position and not to use any weapons against the energy infrastructure,’ Zelensky told reporters in an online briefing.
But he said he’d hold off on a final answer until after he spoke with Trump.
‘After we get the details from the US president, from the US side, we will give our answer,’ he said.
Release of JFK assassination files prompts jokes about Hillary Clinton
The pending release of the files surrounding the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy has prompted online jokes about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Social media users are using the anticipation of the upcoming release to make jokes about Clinton.
‘BREAKING: First documents from the JFK Files have been released,’ wrote Kate Hyde on X, sharing a fake image of a document of the former president having incriminating information on Clinton. ‘All I have to say is… WOW.’
Hillary Clinton would have been only 16 years old when Kennedy was assassinated.
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VP Vance to serve as RNC finance chairman to build Republican majority in 2026
By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter
Vice President J.D. Vance is adding to his workload a position as the Republican National Committee’s Finance Chairman, the party announced on Tuesday.
It’s the first time a sitting vice president will serve in the role.
The purpose of Vance joining the RNC ranks is to help the GOP build on its majority in government in the 2026 midterm elections.
In a statement on the new role, Vance said: ‘To fully enact the MAGA mandate and President Trump’s vision that voters demanded, we must keep and grow our Republican majorities in 2026.’
‘I am excited to work with Chairman Whatley and the RNC leadership to build the war chest we need to deliver those victories next November,’ he added.
Trump and Putin agree 30-day 'energy and infrastructure ceasefire'
President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin took the first steps toward a permanent ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia on Tuesday with an agreement to ‘an energy and infrastructure ceasefire.’
The partial ceasefire agreement will be in affect for 30 days. Talks for a permanent peace will ‘begin immediately’ in the Middle East.
‘The leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace. These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East,’ the White House said in its readout of the call.
Trump and Putin finish lengthy conversation
By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent
President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have finished their highly-anticipated phone call, the White House and the Kremlin confirmed.
It’s unclear if their lengthy conversation resulted in a ceasefire deal.
White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino wrote on social media – midway through the call – that it was ‘going well.’
Kirill Dmitriev, who was named by Putin last month as his special envoy on international economic and investment cooperation, said that under the leadership of the two men the world had become a much a safer place.
Their call started around 10 am ET and ended around noon, lasting about two hours. Trump spoke from the Oval Office, where he was joined by Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The White House is expected to issue a read out of the conversation soon.
White House hints JFK files include 'shock' revelation
The White House said that the JFK files will gives Americans a major revelation in the assassination case.
President Donald Trump’s deputy press secretary previewed that Americans people will be ‘shocked’ by the publication of the documents.
The National Archives is set to publish on Tuesday afternoon the long-awaited top secret files on John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Trump call with Putin started at 10 am ET
President Donald Trump’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin started at 10 am ET, the White House said.
‘The call is going well, and still in progress,’ adviser Dan Scavino posted on X.
Donald Trump taunts Atlantic Magazine journalists
President Donald Trump taunted journalists from The Atlantic Magazine after they requested an interview, revisiting his long list of grievances with the publication for their opposition to his political career.
White House reveals Trump's role in Israel's attack on Gaza
President Donald Trump was consulted by Israel before the country launched a series of attacks against Hamas targets across the Gaza Strip, the White House said.
‘The Trump administration and the White House were consulted by the Israelis on their attacks on Gaza tonight. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News.
And she had a word of warning.
‘As President Trump has made clear – Hamas, the Houthis, Iran – all those who seek to terrorize, not just Israel but the United States of America, will see a price to pay,’ she said, adding: ‘All hell will break loose.’
Trump's self-deportation app ad: 'Do it wrong, you'll never be back'
JFK assassination files' 15 huge 'bombshells', including secret Jackie letter and missing 'conspiracy' footage
Donald Trump’s release of the remaining JFK assassination files could contain 15 huge revelations, including a private letter Jackie Kennedy wrote to President Lyndon Johnson after her husband’s death and missing ‘conspiracy’ footage.
The president has ordered all remaining 80,000 pages of secret JFK assassination files to be released Tuesday afternoon.
He said the massive trove is ‘interesting’ and previously said it would be unredacted, but gave little hint of what will be in it, leaving conspiracy theorists on tenterhooks.
The new files could include a missing original home movie of the assassination taken by bystander Orville Nix on November 22, 1963, according to the JFK Facts newsletter by leading expert on the assassination Jefferson Morley.
Everything we know about JFK's assassination was about to be exposed as a lie
‘The whole thing smells a bit fishy,’ Dorothy Kilgallen wrote in her newspaper column on October 4, 1964.
‘It’s a mite too simple that a chap kills the President of the United States, escapes from that bother, kills a policeman, eventually is apprehended in a movie theater under circumstances that defy every law of police procedure, and subsequently is murdered under extraordinary circumstances.’
A famed investigative journalist, who was described by the New York Post in 1960 as ‘the most powerful female voice in America’, Kilgallen had spent the past 11 months digging into President John F Kennedy's assassination and was becoming one of the loudest voices questioning the official line from the FBI and the insistence that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone.
JD Vance tells story about confronting billionaire CEO about loss of 'dignified and purposeful' jobs
By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor
Vice President JD Vance vowed to slash regulations and cut taxes during an American Dynamism Summit in DC. – and brought up the issue of ‘loss of purpose’ when people lose their jobs.
In a speech with an academic flavor, Vance pondered the ‘tension’ between populism and a group he labeled ‘techno optimists’, and why he thinks they can be joined together.
Vance, who was a biotech executive early in his career, spoke of attending a Silcon Valley dinner and telling the CEO of a multi-billion company about losing middle class jobs. He said that ‘even if you replaced the financial element of their jobs, you would destroy something that was dignified and purposeful about work itself.’
As Vance recalled it, the executive responded that people could turn to ‘digital fully immersive gaming’ – at which point his wife Usha told her husband ‘we have to get the hell out of here. These people are f-ing crazy.’
Vance made the comment while calling for a ‘great American industrial comeback.’ He called cheap labor a ‘drug,’ although he did not mention thousands of DOGE-driven firings in the federal workforce that are underway.
House Democrats use FOIA to try to get information on DOGE officials including Elon Musk
By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor
Reps. Jamie Raskin and Gerry Connolly filed a lengthy FOIA request Tuesday asking the Trump Administration hand over detailed information about DOGE and 42 identified staff members amid mass firings and government reorganization.
The lawmakers, who hold the top Democratic spots on the Judiciary and Oversight committees, are in the minority and thus unable to use their posts to demand information using subpoena power.
Instead, they are relying on transparency laws seeking information on the ‘authority to shutter federal agencies and get rid of more than 100,000 federal employees.’ The Freedom of Information request seeks information on access to ‘personally identifiable or sensitive information’ on Americans. It seeks records on directives by DOGE, and information an application of Artificial Intelligence. The letter seeks final analysis on employee firings, the cancelling of federal contracts, and the nixing of federal leases, as well as firings of probationary employees.
Amid mystery about Musk’s team of young techies, the FOIA asks for information on the titles and employment status Elon Musk and 41 others.
It also asks for their resumes, ethics waivers, and non-disclosure agreements. Among the email communications the lawmakers want to see are key terms including Musk’s companies – ‘SpaceX’, ‘Starlink’, ‘Twitter,’ and ‘Boring Company’, ‘Tesla’ and others.
FOIA requests, which also are available to the media and the general public, can often lead to delays lasting months and heavily redacted information. The lawmakers cite Musk’s ‘refusal to meet with congressional Democrats’ and refusal to respond to ‘basic oversight requests.’
Where will the JFK files be published?
By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter
The congresswoman heading the House Oversight Task Force on declassification of federal secrets said that the U.S. Natiuonal Archives will released the files on JFK’s assassination.
Troves of secret documents related to the murder of John F. Kennedy will be published on Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump vowed on Monday.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said she spike to the U.S. National Archives on Monday.
‘All JFK files being released tomorrow will be housed at the below link,’ she wrote on X with a link to NARA's webpage titled: The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.
Lawmaker leading government secrets release says there were TWO shooters in JFK assassination
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) revealed last month there were ‘two shooters’ in the John F. Kennedy assassination.
The rising MAGA star launched a new task force that plans to expose some of the government’s top secrets.
She and her team will declassify highly sought after documents about JFK’s murder, and also files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump offers to host Kennedy Center Honors
President Donald Trump offered the board of the Kennedy Center his suggestions for artists to celebrate at its annual Honors ceremony and even offered to host the star-studded event himself.
‘I don’t want to, but I want this thing to be successful,’ he told the board, according to a recording obtained by the Washington Post.
The Honors is the Kennedy Center’s biggest event of the year and a massive fundraiser for the arts center. The ceremony, attended by both Republicans and Democrats, pays homage to leaders in the arts.
Trump had his own list of suggestions for who should be honored this year, including Paul Anka, Sylvester Stallone, Johnny Mathis and Andrea Bocelli. All of them supported his presidential campaign.
Elon Musk praises DOGE for 'cleaning up the dead people database' at the Social Security Administration
By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter
Elon Musk lauded DOGE’s clean-up of the Social Security database, which had millions of impossibly-aged Americans still on file.
The Department of Government Efficiency, headed by the billionaire ‘first buddy’, discovered last month that the system for the U.S. Social Security Administration included millions of people above the age of 120 and even some into their 200’s and 300’s.
Musk jokingly called the efforts to delete these records a clearing of the ‘dead people database.’
The DOGE X account posted overnight that the team has over the last two weeks marked as deceased 3.2 million people from the SSA database who were listed over the age of 120-years-old.
There are still millions, however, listed as living in these age brackets that the team is working to delete.
Nadine Menendez goes on trial today
Former Senator Bob Menendez, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison on federal corruption charges, is appealing to Donald Trump to pardon his wife Nadine ahead of her trial on Tuesday.
Nadine Menendez was charged in the same bribery scheme as her husband but her trial was put on hold because she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to undergo treatment.
‘My wife, who had breast cancer reconstructive surgery just days ago, is being forced by the government to go to trial tomorrow. Only the arrogance of the SDNY can be so cruel and inhumane. They should let her fully recover!,’ Menendez wrote on X, tagging Trump.
Menendez, who is appealing his conviction, said after his trial: ‘President Trump is right — this process is political and it’s corrupted to the core,’ in what was widely seen as an appeal for his own clemency.
What time will JFK files be released?
By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter
The John F. Kennedy assassination files will be released in Tuesday in the afternoon, President Donald Trump said.
It will be published by the National Archives and Records Administration.
‘We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files…people have been waiting for decades for this,’ he said when on a tour of the late president’s namesake performing arts center in D.C.
‘That’s going to be released tomorrow. We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading.’
Trump said they would come out ‘tomorrow afternoon.’
JFK assassination files will be released TODAY, Trump vows
By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter
Files on the assassination of John F. Kennedy are set for release on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump said all 80,000 pages of records dubbed the ‘Kennedy files’ will be made public.
The vow came during his Monday tour of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., which was named after the late president in 1964 – a year after his assassination.
‘We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading,” Trump told reporters during his tour. “I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, ‘Just don’t redact. You can’t redact.'”
‘I’m a man of my word,’ he added of the impending publication of the documents.
The only public event on Trump’s schedule Tuesday is his plan to sign even more executive orders in the afternoon.
Trump could give Putin big win with Crimea
President Donald Trump expressed confidence he’ll get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine when he speaks with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and he is determined to do whatever he has to do in order to get it.
‘We can work a peace agreement, a ceasefire and peace and I think we’ll be able to do it,’ Trump told reporters on Monday.