President Trump has ordered officials to start the process of releasing the JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. files. But the family of MLK has requested the opportunity to review the files before their release. What dark secrets may be hidden in them? Glenn and Stu review the rumors that the files may contain proof that MLK had affairs with 40 different women, among other heinous acts. But would this destroy his legacy and message of unity? Glenn and Stu also review JFK’s grandson’s response to Trump’s plan and why Glenn believes the truth MUST come out.
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GLENN: Big weekend this weekend. All right, we will talk about -- let's talk about what's happening in Washington, DC. The Martin Luther King family has reacted to Trump's executive order. And as has the JFK family.
They both say, this is a political stunt. I don't know how it's a political stunt. It was supposed to come out in 2027.
No. It was supposed to come out, when?
In the teens. Twenty teens? And then it kept getting delayed. Delayed. Then Donald Trump delayed it last term. Joe Biden, I -- he might have thought he was JFK for a while.
I'm not really sure.
Or Martin Luther King. And then it's come up again.
And people are tired of secrets.
And so Donald Trump said he would start releasing some of the secrets, that should be released.
And a few of those are the RFK files.
The JFK files.
And the MLK files. So hmm. What do they say?
Well, the Martin Luther King family, they would like to see everything first.
I don't know if you get that privilege. But okay.
Why?
Oh. Do you happen to remember what was said about these files last time.
Last time, they were about to come out.
The guy who is the Martin Luther King authorized biographer, has come out and said, really bad things are in this file.
We all know that he was a philanderer.
And I have to tell you, as I get older, I have more to do for people who did amazing things.
Because I don't -- perfect people aren't the ones that usually stand up and say, I'm going to risk my life for that cause.
Perfect people are usually the ones that are like, no, I've got way too much to lose here.
Martin Luther King was not the first guy that was approached to lead this movement. Just like Rosa Parks wasn't the first one approached on the bus. The first one was too flawed.
She was a teenager that was pregnant, and they didn't think she would garner enough sympathy. The other pastors that were approached to lead this movement all said, no, I've got way too much to lose.
No. They knew what it meant! Martin Luther King was the first one that stood up. And I think the same could be said about Donald Trump. He's not a perfect guy. But he's the first one that would say, yeah. I'll risk my life for it.
I'll do it. I'll stand.
I mean, who else gets up from an assassination, and looks at the crowd, and says, fight!
That's pretty amazing.
So they're not perfect people.
But Martin Luther King, you know, we know he was unfaithful, but apparently what is in this file, is really not good.
STU: Yeah. That's one way to state it. Uh-huh.
GLENN: First, it looks like there's an FBI letter that was trying to blackmail Martin Luther King. So something bad on the government. Trying to blackmail him. Saying, basically kill yourself or this is coming out.
But then there is information on intimate relationships with at least three women. One in Atlanta. One in Mount Vernon. One in New York. One in Washington, DC.
Another memo refers to a recording where King looked at -- this is according to his biographer, where King quoting looking on and laughed as the pastor of Baltimore's Cornerstone Baptist church allegedly raped a woman in the Willard Hotel.
Now, that pastor died in 1991. So there's no way to verify the FBI's information. It's not clear whether the agents involved were transcribing the true reality of his private life, or creating gossip. We don't know. But --
STU: They did, obviously, try to hurt him. And his reputation. That's kind of known. And it's been known for a long time. The question is, is this stuff true? As you point out, the guy who came out with this information in 2019, I think it was, is a very reputable guy. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Right?
GLENN: Again, and authorized by the King family. So this is the guy the King family has said is credible.
STU: And it's hard to believe this lands in any other place than them saying, well, the government did this. And, you know, they will deny it, I think.
GLENN: Well, and does a tape exist? The letter is 500 words. Claims to be from an African-American who supported the civil rights movement.
It was, however, written by the FBI. It accuses King of immoral conduct lower than that of a beast. I'm quoting. And a giant liability to all of us Negroes. Quoting.
STU: Yeah. You didn't have to tell that was a quote.
GLENN: Well, I wanted to make sure.
STU: Unless I don't know something about your background. I don't know.
GLENN: It encourages King to listen to an endorsed -- an enclosed tape, so we don't know if the tape exists.
The writer tells King, it's all there on the record. Your sexual orgies. Listen to yourself, you filthy abnormal animal. You are on record. You have been on record, all of your adulteress acts. Sexual orgies, extending far into the past. But this someone, but a tiny sample. You have 34 days in which to do, dot, dot, dot. There is only one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, fraudulent self is bared before the nation.
I mean, it's not going to make the FBI look good. And it may not make Martin Luther King look good.
STU: The other one you mentioned too, was affairs, which are well-known.
The buyer first says, it's been well-known for 35 to 40 years, that there have been multiple other girlfriends.
I always thought that there were probably ten or 12 over the course of four to five years. This new material makes clear that the total is more like 40 to 45.
GLENN: Wow.
STU: I mean, that's getting a lot of work there. You're a busy bee. Forty to 45, plus the civil rights thing. That's a busy schedule.
GLENN: When do you have time to eat?
STU: Right!
GLENN: The 32-year-old grandson of JFK made an announcement yesterday about JFK's assassination file being opened.
He said, that this is nothing more than a grand scheme. Let's see here.
STU: Grand scheme?
GLENN: Yeah. He said, there is no grand scheme to kill the president. Or, JFK.
And this scheme is just being a political prop, using John F. Kennedy as a political prop for Trump.
STU: How? Why?
GLENN: I don't know. I have no idea.
STU: It's hard to even understand the -- look, why would you not want to know this? What year is this? It's 2025. This happened a long time ago. It's about time we know what actually went on there.
And, look, there will be, I'm sure, some bad things. Some things that probably look for these guys. And some that look bad.
GLENN: Who cares?
STU: They're historical figures.
GLENN: We just want the true history. That's all I want. That's all I want.
STU: We already did a movie about it. It's time to find out what's going on.
GLENN: Yeah. And if you want the country to survive, we have to transparent. I want to know all the things. Even if everybody was pardoned. I want to know who was involved in the January 6th thing. I want to know all the facts.
STU: True.
GLENN: Even if we can't put everybody in jail, I want to know all the facts on -- on the Russia, Russia, Russia thing. On the Joe Biden, you know -- we have to expose these things.
STU: I want to know who hid and how they hid Joe Biden's mental time line from the American people.
GLENN: Big time.
STU: I want to know that. I want an investigation on that.
GLENN: Those people -- those people should go to jail, because I don't think they've been pardoned.
STU: That's true. Exactly.
It needs to be investigated. We need to know how far that went. This is one of the reasons, it feels like to me, hearing you over the years, that you put together the museum.
To unearth things like this. Good or bad, either way, the American people deserve to know the truth.
GLENN: Hello! You have to know the truth, and especially the dark sides of ourselves.
Otherwise, there's bitter and sweet. I mean, I will talk to you a little bit about AI, and AI is offering us a perfect world. Okay?
That's what this is going to be, a perfect life.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: The Garden of Eden. It already existed. Okay?
And we gave it up, for knowledge. Of good and evil.
There is oppose to everything. Good, evil, pleasure, pain. All of that.
And you have to have both sides.
Otherwise, you don't know really what you have.
So right now, Americans haven't seen a lot of pain in our lives. I mean, whatever you're going through, might seem like a lot of pain. But as a country, nothing like the Great Depression.
Nothing like World War II. We haven't experienced that. So we don't really appreciate what we have.
We have to know both sides. And, you know, when it comes to Martin Luther King, that's a holiday.
We took away the Abraham Lincoln holiday. And the George Washington holiday. To make it, a combined holiday for presidents, which presidents?
And then gave Martin Luther King his holiday.
Okay. Was that right? Was that a mistake?
I don't know. Let's just know who we're holding up here. And that doesn't mean that his ideas of America live up to your promises as important. It's probably more important now than ever before. Because the people who have been oppressed in the past, are being convinced that you're still oppressed, and now the only way to not be oppressed is to take Martin Luther King's message, and flip it upside, on its head.
And say, you've got to be a racist to be an antiracist. The only way to fix racism is to engage in racism. These are important conversations for us to have.
And I for one, applaud the president for doing this. And I think we should get all of it. Absolutely all of it. And I hope it doesn't stop here.