The Great Un-Declassification

and what happens now

I’m not including citations in this post for the sole purpose of motivating readers to investigate my claims themselves, instead of taking my word for it. However, I do have a full list of citations and sources. If you’re feeling especially lazy today, you can email me at carsonwagner@substack.com and I’ll send you the list. That being said, I highly encourage you to take initiative and pursue the truth yourself.

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Before I begin what I’m sure will be a controversial post, let me make something absolutely, unequivocally clear.

Donald Trump is my President.

I support him and his administration completely, almost without reserve. He and his people alone have done more good for this country and for the people of the United States than any president since Ronald Reagan. He isn’t perfect, but he’s a thousand times better than the alternative; and the bureaucrats he has selected to lead our country are competent, smart, and genuinely have good intentions.

However, my highest earthly loyalty does not lie with the Trump administration. It lies with the truth.

So however hard and painful it is to criticize my own side, that’s why I’m writing this.

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Something isn’t adding up.

Over the past several years, the American people have been told time and again that long-withheld files—documents relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as files connected to the Jeffrey Epstein case and UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena)—were finally going to be released.

Trump himself promised transparency many times. He tweeted in 2017 that he would allow the release of the long-classified JFK files, “subject to the receipt of further information.” He’s made comments about the UAP files, Epstein client list, RFK investigation results, 9/11 stuff, and much more. It’s clear he wanted the MAGA voting bloc to count on those releases actually happening.

But here we are—170 days into his second term—and we’ve gotten almost nothing.

Take the JFK files. On March 18, 2025, the National Archives posted a massive 60,000-page release online, claiming it was the final and full declassification. But serious questions remain unanswered. For example, why do photographs exist of Jack Ruby and Oswald together before the assassination? Why do credible witness testimonies contradict the Warren Commission’s official conclusions? How did a single bullet supposedly change direction multiple times and wound multiple people? Why are we still pretending a cheap bolt-action rifle could pull off what ballistics experts say is impossible, in an equally-impossible amount of time?

These aren’t tinfoil-hat questions. They’re logical, documentable inconsistencies. And this “full release” did nothing to address them.

Worse? Nothing else has been released.

Nothing.

So what happened to the rest of it?

During Trump’s first term, his own CIA director, Mike Pompeo, reportedly “begged” him not to release the JFK files. He said that it would have a world-shaking impact and people were still living who would be implicated and affected. Thanks to his relentless lobbying, Trump didn’t order the release in his first term. But the March 2025 release (which is supposed to be full and complete) doesn’t implicate anyone still living or anyone that was living in 2017 when Pompeo was making his claims. Nor are there any smoking guns or bombshells.

So what was Pompeo talking about? Who was he protecting?

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The DOJ now claims they’ve completed a full investigation and found no reason to believe Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. And to back this up, they released surveillance footage from the night of his death—footage they previously claimed didn’t exist because the cameras were “down for maintenance.” So which is it? Was the footage never there—or are we just being lied to, again?

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The documents related to Robert Kennedy’s assassination were also “fully released”. I personally looked through everything, and failed to find a single explanation for the fact that—despite the weapon his alleged assassin (Sirhan Sirhan) used only having an eight-round clip—over thirteen bullet holes were found and thirteen shots can be clearly heard on the tapes. Nor did it explain the fact that none of the bullets found in Kennedy matched Sirhan’s gun. Or that the autopsy revealed the fatal wounds were fired from directly behind him……and Sirhan was standing on his right side.

Again: these aren’t wild theories. They’re forensic facts.

See what I mean? These “releases” are technically happening, but we’re not getting any actual explanations.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. files haven’t even been touched or spoken about. And yet, there are serious questions. For example, James Earl Ray (his alleged assassin) supposedly killed him and fled, (very conveniently) forgetting the gun with his fingerprints on it at the crime scene, providing the prosecutors with the single piece of evidence they could produce to the court. The very next day, Memphis public works employees walked on in to an active, extremely high-profile crime scene and tore up the entire crime scene for no apparent reason, including the bushes where Ray supposedly hid, successfully destroying any further evidence that might be there.

No one stopped them. Not the countless police that were present, nor the crime scene investigators, nor the myriad of spectators. They just marched on in and destroyed the whole crime scene.

As if that isn’t ridiculous enough, in 1999, MLK’s own family brought a civil suit against the U.S. government in defense of James Earl Ray, alleging conspiracy in MLK’s death. The trial lasted four weeks. After hearing the evidence, the jury deliberated for just one hour. The verdict? Guilty. Dr. King was murdered as part of a U.S. government conspiracy. That’s legal fact.

What else do we need? It’s not even a conspiracy theory at that point.

UAPs? 9/11? Same story. Silence.

Now, maybe there’s nothing sensational to reveal. Maybe we’ve misunderstood. Maybe there are boring explanations.

Fine.

Then give us the explanations. That’s all we ask for.

If the Trump administration came out and said, “We found no reason to believe Epstein was murdered” or “There’s no credible UAP evidence,” I could accept that—if they backed it up.

But instead, we’re getting conclusions with no proof and statements with no evidence. “Trust us,” they say.

Sorry, but no. That’s not actually how truth works. If you make a claim, you need to support it. That’s not just journalism—that’s logic. That’s reason. That’s how adults operate in a free society.

I’ve researched each of these cases myself. I’ve made hypotheses. I’ve laid out my reasons. I’ve done my homework. Now the DOJ, the CIA, and this administration are making counterclaims.

They need to show their work.

When the DOJ released their Epstein memo, they told us what to believe and walked away. No receipts. No transparency. Just a statement. But that’s not good enough. The American people are not children. We don’t need to be protected from the truth. We’re not fools. We’re adults—thinking, reasoning, questioning adults. That’s what has always set America apart.

So in conclusion, I want to again make clear this isn’t an attack. These are just questions for the current administration. Why are we still being told through our leaders’ actions, decades later, that we’re not ready to know the truth? Why are Trump and his people — who built their entire brand on draining the swamp, exposing corruption, and telling it like it is — unable to give us any explanations?

We were promised truth. What we got were redactions, contradictions, and silence. The swamp isn’t just partisan corruption. It’s decades of secrets. And if we’re serious about draining it, that means draining all of it—JFK, RFK, MLK, Epstein, UAPs, 9/11. No more stalling. No more excuses. If President Trump truly wants to give the country back to its people, then it’s time to give us the truth. Truth delayed is truth denied.

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I don’t claim to have all the answers. Maybe these files will be released later. Maybe things are happening behind closed doors that we can’t see. I’m very open to that.

But right now? It looks like truth is being withheld. So, as always, I’m asking questions.

And I hope you are, too.