(Headline USA) Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that the Biden administration has denied his request for a Secret Service detail despite the credible threats against him and his family.
Invoking the assassination of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, the candidate pointed out that protection for presidential candidates is typically a routine service provided to them.
“Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me,” Kennedy tweeted. “Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request.”
Hunter Biden gets a six-car Secret Service motorcade to take him to courtrooms in Delaware and Arkansas, where doors are opened and closed for him as if he were a prince. The Secret Service even rented a house next to his in Malibu for $30,000 per month. But Joe Biden has refused… https://t.co/8XMAkSB2NP
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) July 28, 2023
Kennedy said he received a message from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that read, “I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not warranted at this time.”
However, Kennedy said his campaign provided the administration with a detailed report about credible threats he has experienced.
“Our campaign’s request included a 67-page report from the world’s leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats,” he explained.
Kennedy has blasted the Biden administration, and much of the Democrat Party, for its opposition to him. Specifically, Kennedy testified before Congress about the White House’s efforts to censor him on social media.
Predictably, congressional Democrats tried to censor his censorship testimony.
“This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing,” he told lawmakers.
Growing animated at times, Kennedy defended his statements, which have delved into race, vaccine safety and other issues, as neither “racist or antisemitic.” He said his family has long believed in the First Amendment right to free speech.
“The First Amendment was not written for easy speech,” Kennedy said. “It was written for the speech that nobody likes you for.”
