Donald Trump is set to be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States and with that, potentially reveal one of the most secretive files in US history.
Trump, now 78, cruised to victory in the 2024 presidential election after comfortably beating Vice President Kamala Harris in a battle for the keys to the White House.
He is now all set for his presidential inauguration alongside Vice President-elect JD Vance, with the event happening at the United States Capitol today (20 January). It is, of course, his second time in the White House after serving as POTUS from 2017 to 2021, losing to President Joe Biden.
Trump is set to introduce major changes once he becomes president, with some policies quite controversial. And alongside that, he is set to open up a can of worms on one of the largest incidents in American political history.
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Donald Trump's Joe Rogan podcast promise
In the days before the 2024 presidential election, Trump sat down with the world's number one podcaster, broadcaster and UFC legend Joe Rogan. Harris was also invited onto the show but did not appear due to differences over the scheduling of the potential chat.
In his three-hour interview for The Joe Rogan Experience, Trump spoke candidly about personal and political issues as well as matters he would like to address if he were to beat Harris.
Among them, the president-elect revealed he would reveal 'secret' government files about topics that were of, in his words, huge public interest.
Which 'secret' US file did Trump mention?
It is probably the most 'secret' of them all: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy back in 1963.
The revelation came before Trump announced JFK's nephew, Robert F Kennedy Jr (known as RFK), was his presumptive nominee for United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in his second cabinet. During the election campaign, Trump promised RFK to reveal more about what happened to his relative.
JFK's murder is one of the most significant incidents in US history, with the president shot in the head as he drove through Dallas, Texas.
Grassy knoll or no grassy knoll, the incident has become a conspiracy theorist's playground. While the FBI ruled that Lee Harvey Oswald was the murderer, many to this day believe it to be a cover-up.
On the JFK files, Trump told Rogan: "I did partially open [the files]. I think I've opened 50 percent but I was asked not to do it, and I thought that was a reasonable ask.
"But now I'm going to do it I'm going to do it very soon there's a lot of interest in it."
Trump said that due to the case documents involving people who are still alive, 'you tend not to do it' when it comes to releasing classified documents.
Topics: Donald Trump, Conspiracy Theory, US News, Politics, Joe Rogan, Podcast
Tom Earnshaw