Former President Donald Trump made a pledge to form a commission on assassination attempts that would include releasing the remaining documents related to John F. Kennedy’s murder in November 1963 hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed him.
Trump made his announcement at a rally in Glendale, Ariz., just hours after receiving RFK Jr.’s endorsement following the former Democrat-turned-Independent’s decision to end his presidential bid and back the 45th president. Kennedy’s father, Robert F. Kennedy Sr., JFK’s brother, was also assassinated during a presidential bid of his own on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif.
JFK was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
During his rally speech, Trump referenced the assassination attempt against him last month in Butler, Pa. “They will also conduct a rigorous review of the attack last month,” Trump noted, as reported by the New York Post. “But I tell you, I have never had more people ask me, ‘Please, sir, release the documents on the Kennedy assassination,’ and we’re going to do that.”
Trump also reiterated his pledge to establish a panel of “top experts working with Bobby” that would investigate the cause of a “decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases.”
“We want every child in America to grow up and to live a long and healthy life,” the GOP nominee declared.
At the rally in Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Trump, 78, praised the 70-year-old scion of the Kennedy political dynasty as an “incredible champion” for American values. Trump described Kennedy as a “highly respected” and “great person” before introducing him as a surprise guest.
“Bobby! Bobby! Bobby!” Trump supporters in the packed arena chanted.
“For the past 16 months, Bobby has run an extraordinary campaign,” Trump said. “I know because he went after me a couple of times — I didn’t like it.”
“His candidacy has inspired millions and millions of Americans, raised critical issues that have been too long ignored in this country and brought together people from across the political spectrum in a positive campaign grounded in the American values of his father, Robert Kennedy, a great man, and his uncle, President John F. Kennedy,” the former president added. “And I know that they are looking down right now, and they are very, very proud of Bobby. I’m proud of Bobby.”
“One of the issues that he talked about was having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic,” the Democrat-turned-independent told the crowd.
Kennedy went on to say that in his initial conversations with Trump – after the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania — the pair discussed “not the things that separate us, because we don’t agree on everything, but on the values and the issues” they share.
“Don’t you want healthy children? And don’t you want the chemicals out of our food? And don’t you want the regulatory agencies to be free from corporate corruption? And that’s what President Trump told me that he wanted,” Kennedy said.
“Don’t you want a president that’s going to make America healthy again?” he asked the roaring crowd.
RFK Jr. also mentioned Trump’s vows to keep America out of foreign wars, end censorship, and protect “America’s freedoms” from “totalitarianism.”
After Kennedy’s brief remarks, Trump spoke, predicting that his former rival would have a “huge influence” on his campaign — “much bigger than you’d see in the polls.”
“Bobby and I will fight together to defeat the corrupt political establishment and return control of this country to the people. And all who supported Bobby’s campaign, I very simply ask you join us in building this coalition,” Trump said.
Kennedy withdrew from the 2024 race on Friday and criticized the Democratic Party for conducting a “sham primary” and appointing Vice President Kamala Harris “without an election.”
