President Donald Trump has acted fast after returning to the White House this year following on from his election win over former Vice President Kamala Harris.
And while a fair share of his policies and proposals have been somewhat controversial, as well as his reaction to tragic events under his second presidency, there is a universal sense of anticipation when it comes to one thing the 47th POTUS has promised.
It all comes down to Trump’s dedication to revealing state secrets that have not been released to the public. Some of these have remained classified secrets for decades, dating back to the 1960s.
Anna Paulina Luna is a member of the US Congress and following her appointment by President Trump to lead the declassification force, here is a run down of the biggest secrets we could soon know.
Jeffrey Epstein and his ‘client list’
Disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died at the age of 66.
This was while he was in prison serving sentences relating to allegations of sexually abusing children and sex trafficking minors. His suicide came while he was set to face trial over new child trafficking charges.
Since his death, conversation about just who he was supplying these heinous services to have been the topic of endless conversation.
Now, under Trump, Epstein’s so-called ‘client list’ will be revealed after being declassified by the federal government.
Trump himself was a known associate of Epstein before his sexual offence charges came to light. There is zero suggestion of any wrongdoing by the President.
Marsha Blackburn, a Republican senator for Tennessee, said: “I have been working on this for years, trying to get those records of who flew on Epstein’s plane and who helped him build this international human trafficking, sex trafficking ring.”
Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director, said: “Child sex trafficking has no place in the United States of America, and I will do everything, if confirmed as FBI director, to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened in the past and how we are going to countermand missing children and exploited children going forward.”
Assassination of JFK
The assassination of President John F Kennedy sent shockwaves through America and the wider world when the POTUS was shot in the head and killed while in Dallas.
Happening back in 1963, it has arguably become the most famous conspiracy theory of all time despite the FBI ruling that Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed the President himself from the a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.
A US Marine veteran, Oswald said he was framed for the murder. He never faced trial, with 24-year-old murdered on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. And it Oswald’s plea of innocence, combined with theories of FBI or CIA involvement, that has led to decades of conspiracy build up on the case.
Now, Trump could end that for good by releasing the JFK files to the public. Speaking to Joe Rogan before his re-election, Trump said: “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 has appointed JFK’s nephew, Robert F Kennedy Jr (RFK Jr) as his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Covid-19 origins
While fresh in our minds despite attempts to forget about those brutal years spent in lockdown and fighting the virus before vaccines were created, talk continues around where Covid-19 came from.
The first outbreak happened in Wuhan, China, with it very quickly spreading around the world.
Trump previously called it the ‘Chinese virus’, angering officials in Beijing. And despite US national intelligence saying in 2020 there was no evidence of it originating from a Chinese laboratory, Trump stood by this theory.
Former FBI director Christopher Wray echoed Trump in 2024, saying it ‘most likely’ originated from a ‘Chinese government-controlled lab’. Beijing once again hit back, accusing the US of ‘political manipulation’.
Trump is now set to release the federal files on the origins of Covid-19, which should make for interesting reading.
Aliens and UFOs
Trump previously spoke to Joe Rogan about declassifying files relating to unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
“There’s a lot of interest in the people coming from space. And I know you’re interested in that. It’s never been my thing. I have to be honest. I never have been a believer,” Trump told the UFC colour commentator.
Speaking about what others have seen, though, Trump said: “I interviewed jet pilots that were solid people, perfect – great pilots, great everything. And they said, ‘We saw things, sir, that were very strange. Like, a round ball but it wasn’t a comet or a meteor’.
“It was something and it was going four times faster than an F-22, which is a very fast plane, you know. And it was round, which isn’t, in theory, a great shape.”
This one is sure to get the attention of pretty much everyone.
9/11 terrorist attacks
On September 11, 2011, a number of coordinated attacks were carried out on the United States by al-Qaeda, destroying the Twin Towers in New York City and flying a plane in to the Pentagon.
A total of 2,977 people lost their lives, with it changing the course of history forever and seeing the USA wage its ‘war on terror’ that has dominated global politics for the two and a half decades since.
Alongside the awful real-world consequences of the attack, 9/11 conspiracy theories have become a social phenomenon.
From controlled demolitions of the Twin Towers to the Pentagon being attacked by the US military, not a separate plane, there are what feels like countless takes on what really happened.
All major theories have been rejected by independent reviews. Now, Trump looks set to release what the Government knows about 9/11 so that the public can get the full picture from what we already know.