Overview

• In a Truth Social post, the president directed his administration to declassify and release any government materials related to Earhart, including her final flight.
• Reporters note it is unclear whether any classified Earhart records exist nearly 90 years later, while a 59-page FBI file on the aviator is already public.
• A longstanding government-commissioned inquiry concluded Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan likely ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific, and no confirmed wreckage or remains have been found.
• Critics cast the announcement as a diversion from demands to disclose Epstein-related documents as House sponsors prepare a discharge petition that could force a vote.
• The order introduces no new evidence about Earhart’s fate, and agencies have not detailed what, if anything, will be released.