Trump defends the release of Social Security numbers in JFK files: 'We gave everything'

President Donald Trump is defending his administration's determination to merchandise unredacted concealed documents from the government’s JFK assassination files, contempt the records containing Social Security numbers and different delicate idiosyncratic accusation of perchance hundreds of erstwhile legislature staffers and others.

"I said, release, we adjacent released Social Security numbers. I didn't privation thing deleted," Trump said astir the documents connected Friday portion successful the Oval Office.

Trump, who declined to respond erstwhile questioned astir who killed John F. Kennedy connected Nov. 22, 1963, stated helium did what galore erstwhile presidents did not by releasing the files. He added that his determination to not delete peoples' Social Security numbers from the files was made for the involvement of transparency, and with the thought that the individuals were dead.

"They said, 'Sir, what astir Social Security?' Oh, radical are agelong gone," Trump said connected Friday. "If you don't delete it, if you bash delete it, radical are going to say, 'Why did you delete it, there's thing successful there.' So we gave Social Security. And we gave everything."

Former apical Justice Department authoritative plans to writer implicit JFK record release

Trump was mistaken, arsenic 1 individual, who is precise overmuch alive, said helium was taking ineligible enactment due to the fact that his idiosyncratic accusation was made nationalist done the merchandise of the JFK files.

“I mean to writer the National Archives,” Joseph diGenova, a erstwhile apical Justice Department authoritative and Trump run lawyer, said. “They violated the Privacy Act.”

DiGenova, the U.S. lawyer successful Washington, D.C. during the Reagan administration, said the accusation astir him that was successful the files stemmed from his engagement with the Church Committee successful the 1970s, which investigated misdeeds by the CIA and different U.S. quality agencies. He told USA TODAY connected Thursday that helium has filed his suit and purchased LifeLock to support his recognition standing and accounts from theft.

The Privacy Act of 1974 prohibits national agencies from disclosing records without the written consent of the individual, particularly successful cases wherever it publicizes delicate information.

James Johnston, different erstwhile Church Committee staffer, told USA TODAY his idiosyncratic information, including his Social Security number, was made nationalist successful the files released by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Trump: 'We're doing it with Dr. Martin Luther King, too'

In summation to backing his administration's determination to merchandise the JFK documents, Trump said helium is going to bash the aforesaid regarding the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"We're doing it with Dr. Martin Luther King, too. They're preparing each of that. They're going to release everything. And whoever other we want...We truly person thing to hide," Trump said connected Friday.

Trump past downplayed the JFK files, which helium said the nationalist was "going brainsick on."

"I don't deliberation there's anything that's earth-shattering, but you'll person to marque that determination," helium added.

The president adjacent confirmed that determination are really 88,000 pages of documents related to JFK's assassination, with further files slated to beryllium released aboriginal connected Friday.

"Everything is retired there. Totally open," Trump said.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected USA TODAY: Trump defends Social Security numbers being successful JFK files