An ally of President Donald Trump who has been tasked with declassifying federal secrets has said she intends to give Americans unfettered access to the information—including anything that implicates the president.
Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told CNN host Manu Raju on Sunday that successive administrations have withheld information about President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, accused sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein, and UFOs.
Raju asked whether Luna would be transparent about individuals invited to Epstein’s private island, including the president himself.
“I will put out information to the American people as that is what we promised to do,” she said. “When you have only a partial truth, then you can create a narrative implying that the president would be doing something that he’s not.”
“I would think that having the full picture will answer those questions,” she added.
Trump has downplayed links to Epstein and said he never visited his remote residence.
“I never went to his island, fortunately, but a lot of people did,” the president said on “The Lex Fridman Podcast" in September.
During the interview, Luna accused the Warren Commission, which was charged with investigating JFK’s death, of keeping information from the public.
“The information that they presented was not the full picture,” she said.
Her claim comes days after the FBI said it had uncovered 2,400 documents related to the murder that had previously not been associated with the agency’s file on JFK. President Trump issued an executive order Jan. 23 declassifying the FBI’s files on JFK, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Raju questioned whether Luna—who has claimed more than “two shooters” killed JFK in 1963—could be convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed the former president.
“If I’m wrong, I’ll admit that,” she said, adding she had yet to see the declassified files. “But as of right now, based on some of the stuff that’s already publicly out there, I don’t agree with that theory.”
Raju also asked about UFO sightings, which the Biden administration had said were, in fact, balloons or Chinese spy devices.
“I find it very, very odd that, instead of just coming out and saying we don’t have anything, that we’re constantly being stonewalled and stone-typed with certain information,” Luna said.
“In my opinion, the fact that they’re hiding it probably means that there’s something there,” she added.
Raju questioned the task force’s work.
“Some people say you’re chasing conspiracies,” Raju retorted.
“Well, if I’m a conspiracy theorist for looking into who assassinated the president, that would have to be me and most of this governing body because there’s a lot of Democrats that want to know, too,” Luna said.
