Surely nobody sees this as a bad thing. It’s been a bit since these events happened.
This post is not political whether you believe or do not believe Trump is up to you.
We used to call this confirmation bias....
Have you considered that releasing these files is just fulfilling a campaign promise? Or that if a non-Trump admin had done this it would've been celebrated?
Its shifting the goal posts when the call has to been release all the documents, and when they do just that, saying it wasnt in fact all the documents...it would be impossible to have evidence of it, or verify it. Just unsubstantiated claims, but thats enough for some
Very funny watching flerfs realize other flerfs arent actually willing to look at real evidence without making it a conspiracy.
I'm all for releasing all the known evidence about the case, but a large swath of people will never be satisfied unless they hear exactly what they want to hear. There are still a sizable number of people who think the Moon landings were faked, despite all evidence to the contrary.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald
Just because the government messed up the first investigation in a rush doesn't change the fact that they came to the correct conclusion as the following decades has shown. It's possible there's something embarrassing to the fbi in those files but it wouldn't be assassination of prominent figures
The FBI was out for MLK.
In his first term Trump liked the FBI so he allowed them to redact the JFK files he was legally supposed to release to the public.
But in 2025 they’re his bogey man so releasing it so Kash Patel has an even easier time remolding it in his image makes a lot of sense.
Fun fact: there is a statue of MLK at the FBI academy in Quantico.
Even if nothing substantively new is released it gives him a chance to rant about the FBI as part of his mission to seize power and discredit the "deep state" while cosplaying as a supporter of truth, justice, people of color, etc.
Other possibility: they really didn’t do it, but there’s some classified record which sure makes it sound like they did. e.g. some record of J. Edgar Hoover joking about doing it
If a bus driver for a federal prison snapped and shot him we could say the same thing.
Where is the line between agency and private party if it's not drawn on the record?
*If the director asked, and we know that he asked, then it is on the record.
*If the director asked off the record, then it's called classified.
*If there is a conviction then it was a rogue cell.
The agency is clear in all cases whether we like it or not. Same as a corporation, but worse.
But, it still can be judged guilty or innocent in the court of public opinion and the accounts of future historians
He's explicitly at war with the deep state and existing institutions. Trying to tear them down and seize power. If these files make the FBI and/or other TLA(s) look bad, further public eroding trust and support, he wins.
The Republicans are also starting to win back non-white voters. Shedding light on the MLK assassination certainly does not hurt that effort.