Mr Trump promised as a candidate to release government files related to President John F Kennedy’s 1963 assassination. When he took office in January 2025, the US president signed an executive order to declassify the JFK records, along with those associated with the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy (RFK) and King.

Donald Trump has released a huge batch of previously classified documents about Dr Martin Luther King’s (MLK) assassination. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is publishing 230,000 pages worth of documents relating to the death of the civil rights leader in 1968.

The latest news on President Donald Trump’s second term and the Republican-led Congress as the administration releases files on Martin Luther King Jr.