It has been less than a month since Donald Trump took office as the US President on January 20, 2025. Amongst the plethora of executive actions Trump has signed (65 so far, and counting), thereby puzzling analysts and journalists, one of them, albeit largely unnoticed, stands out in its apparent oddity. Namely, the American leader has set up a task force to release secret files on a series of topics, which include the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and civil rights leader Martin Luther King (MLK); and even the shady businesses of Jeffrey Epstein, the American billionaire who procured women and underage girls to elite associates, including politicians and royalty.

What is going on here? Is it every “conspiracy theorist” dream of full disclosure coming true? This move, like many others, is sure to have raised some eyebrows. In fact, a lot of very powerful individuals might be losing nights of sleep over this, for obvious reasons. In trying to understand Trump’s strategic goals or his rationale, opinions vary, but there seems to be two main stances:

Similarly, for diplomat and politician John Bolton, the US President is highly unstable, almost a man-child. In an interview, Bolton claimed (around 7 minutes) that the Republican leader “has no philosophy”, and “no grand strategy”: “Nobody knows [what Trump will do] and that includes Donald Trump [himself], because it depends on how he feels later today or tomorrow, or the day after that.” He added that all talk about making Canada “the 51st state” of the US, in his view, was just a way of........

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