"As Americans continue to peruse the chaotically organized Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump announced late on Thursday that he would release more previously unseen files, this time on America's other favorite subject: unidentified flying objects. Trump wrote on Truth Social that "tremendous interest" from the public spurred him to release Defense department and other government files "related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters." These newly revealed files will supplement the slow trickle of information on the subject that began around 2017."
"Critics may allege, as they often do, that the timing of this announcement is meant to distract from any number of other tough subjects for Trump: his administration's many connections to Epstein, ICE blowback in Minnesota, the quiet slouch toward war with Iran. But Trump's motivation here seems a simpler and more classic one for him: Trying to one-up Barack Obama. Earlier on Thursday, Trump condemned the former president for asserting in an interview that aliens were real. (Unfortunately, Obama later clarified that he meant it in a theoretical, scale-of-the-universe sense, not that he had seen any classified footage confirming intelligent life off-world.)"
"On Air Force One on Thursday, Trump told reporters that Obama "gave classified information, he's not supposed to be doing that." "So aliens are real?" the reporter responded. "Well, I don't know if they're real or not," Trump said, repeating the line that Obama gave out classified information without explaining what it was. "He made a big mistake.""
President Trump announced he will release previously unseen Defense Department and other government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, UAP, and UFOs, citing "tremendous interest" from the public. The release is positioned as adding to the limited information that began emerging around 2017. Critics suggest the timing could distract from other controversies involving Trump, but the announcement also appears motivated by a desire to one-up Barack Obama after his remarks about aliens. Trump publicly accused Obama of revealing classified information and repeatedly stated uncertainty about whether aliens are real. The directive raises questions about procedures for releasing classified material.
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