A year after repeated requests from independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he now has Secret Service protection. President Joe Biden relented after the attempted assassination Saturday of Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Penn. and Trump calling for Kennedy’s protection.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced on Monday that the order came directly from Biden, a clear indication that Biden has been responsible for withholding such protection from the son of an assassinated presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, and the nephew of an assassinated president, John F. Kennedy.
“Thank you to President Biden for granting me Secret Service protection. And I am so grateful to Gavin deBecker & Associates for the last 15 months of my Presidential campaign,” Kennedy Jr. said in a post on X/Twitter. Kennedy has had to pay for his own protection, which may have been due to his perceived political threat to Biden’s presidency. Kennedy was a Democrat, but after being snubbed by the Democrat party, switched to independent.
Also, it was observed at the Republican National Convention, Trump had been given increased Secret Service protection when he entered the Fiserve Forum arena in Milwaukee, Wis. on the first day of the Republican National Convention. He survived the assassination attempt and critics have said that the security detail that was assigned to him was less than prepared, and that some of the officers were demonstrably incompetent.
About time. Common sense.
About time.
The biggest question is why did this young white Christian Conservative male have access to this weapon and why did he try to neutralize the leader of his own party? I believe it is legal in Pennsylvania to carry a long gun in public. Nonetheless he got within 150 yards of a presidential candidate. Interesting how many have used this event to spout their misogynist views regarding the Secret Service and their employees. Mike Johnson sure was eloquent after the loss of his teleprompter. I’m sure todays convention speakers will be equally dazzling in their rhetoric.
OMG…Biden actually woke up for a minute!
How interesting. The secret service detail is all under direct orders from the Big Guy.
Who in their right mind would think someone would want to kill another Kennedy?
He then has the cahones to go on world wide news and call Putin a killer.
Pot calling the kettle black? Again?
As the saying goes “There is more than one way to win”
If you cant win the peoples votes you can always maneuver a way to cheat.
Competing with Joe is as dangerous as doing business with the Clintons.