(Headline USA) Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the Biden administration for a third time to provide him with Secret Service detail after an intruder tried to break into his home twice in one day.
“Yesterday an intruder climbed the fence at my home and was arrested,” Kennedy tweeted. “After being released from police custody later in the day, he immediately returned to my home and was arrested again.”
The Los Angeles Police Department reportedly identified the intruder as 28-year-old Jonathan Macht. Macht first tried to break into RFK’s home on Wednesday morning and was arrested on suspicion of trespassing. But he was released and attempted to break in again later that day.
According to his staff, Macht “asked to see the candidate” after being detained by RFK’s security guards for the second time.
RFK Jr. was home at the time of both arrests, according to his presidential campaign.
The independent candidate has asked the Department of Homeland Security three times for a Secret Service detail, citing multiple threats against him and his campaign.
“Over the last several months, the campaign submitted formal requests for Secret Service protection, yet Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has refused to approve the protection,” Kennedy’s campaign said in a statement.
“Every presidential administration for 55 years has afforded early protection to candidates who requested it,” he said. “The Biden administration is the sole outlier.”
Kennedy’s father, former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., and his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, were both assassinated while in office.
In circumstances that seem eerily parallel, his father was running a campaign to upset incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 Democratic primary when he was killed by a Palestinian national while celebrating a major victory in California.
“Given all that is known, please reconsider your decision to refuse Secret Service protection to presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and allow protection to commence as soon as possible,” Kennedy’s third formal request to the DHS states.
“As the law intends, the Secret Service can help protect the candidate and the electoral process, while also reducing risk to others in the candidate’s environment, including members of the general public,” it said.
