Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Trump’s up to his daily games of bully, bloviate, lie, and project.

What’s today’s actions? Well, let’s see - there’s the projection and deflections about Rep. Wilson.

Then there’s the tweet about the JFK files.

Trump’s doing it because Congress asked him to declassify the remaining records. Trump’s not doing it for any other reason.

Why the fuck is Congress asking for this at this time and this place in history? Trump’s too busy showing depraved indifference to Puerto Rico and can’t get needed resources to the island to restore power faster. Trump’s failures harm millions of Americans, and yet there’s a need for releasing JFK files?

What’s going on here? Has everyone in DC lost their fucking minds? /rhetorical

No - it’s because there’s a statutory deadline coming up at the end of the month, and Congress is trying to get Trump to do his fucking job.

Resolutions introduced in the House and Senate would call on the president to allow release of documents held by the National Archives and Records Administration, and for the Archives to work to meet a statutory deadline that arrives later in October.

The deadline occurs because it will be the 25th anniversary of the signing of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act.

The leaders of the Senate resolution are Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, who is a former chairman of the committee.

“The assassination of President Kennedy was one of the most shocking and tragic events in our nation’s history,” Leahy said in a statement. “Americans have the right to know what our government knows. Transparency is crucial for our country to fully reckon with this national tragedy, and that is the purpose of these resolutions.”

Grassley expressed a similar sentiment in his statement.

“Transparency in government is critical not only to ensuring accountability; it’s also essential to understanding our nation’s history. The assassination of President Kennedy occurred at a pivotal time for our nation, and nearly 54 years later, we are still learning the details of how our government responded and what it may have known beforehand. Americans deserve a full picture of what happened that fateful day in November 1963,” Grassley said.