Well, this just got interesting. Tucker Carlson dropped a bombshell on Monday, claiming that a Republican senator is actively working behind the scenes to keep the truth about John F. Kennedy’s assassination hidden from the public. And the name he put forward? Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR).
Carlson told Chris Cuomo (yes, that Cuomo) that a sitting senator—Cotton—pressured colleagues on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to block one of President Trump’s national intelligence nominees. Why? Because that nominee supported full disclosure of the JFK assassination files. That’s right—someone was denied a job in the intelligence community because they wanted to reveal the truth to the American people.
What’s Cotton so desperate to keep secret?
The Mystery Deepens
According to Carlson, there’s no logical reason to keep these files locked away. The CIA’s reputation was already shredded decades ago, and anyone directly involved in Kennedy’s assassination is long gone. Yet, for some reason, Cotton allegedly pulled strings to keep a lid on the remaining classified files—even during Trump’s presidency, when transparency was actually on the table.
When Cuomo pressed Carlson on whether he had directly asked President Trump about Cotton’s motives, Carlson admitted he hadn’t yet, but he didn’t hold back his suspicions:
“If you’re telling me that, six weeks ago, a sitting senator was attempting to keep someone out of a job in order to keep these files secret to protect ‘the CIA,’ I don’t believe that for a second,” Carlson said.
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Cotton Fires Back—But Avoids the Question
Cotton immediately went on defense, posting on X (formerly Twitter) that Carlson never reached out to him for clarification.
“This is false. I have no problem releasing the ‘JFK files.’ Had @tuckercarlson asked me, I would’ve told him,” Cotton wrote.
Sounds good, right? But then, why hasn’t he done more to ensure their release?
Cotton then made a very careful statement, saying he never spoke to Trump about blocking someone over the files—which, conveniently, doesn’t rule out that he was still working behind the scenes to keep them classified.
And let’s not forget that this isn’t the first time Cotton has gone against Trump. In the past, he objected to Trump revoking security clearances from deep-state loyalists like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo. Cotton’s reasoning? He wanted to ensure the intelligence community wouldn’t hesitate to work with Trump in his second term.
Sorry, but that’s just more swamp-speak for protecting the same deep-state actors who’ve worked against Trump from day one.
The Bottom Line
If Cotton really has nothing to hide, he should be the loudest voice in the Senate demanding full declassification of the JFK files. But instead, he’s being accused of blocking transparency while scrambling to do damage control.
What’s really in those documents? And why are so many in Washington—including a so-called Republican ally—so desperate to keep them buried?
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