Robert F Kennedy Jr (RFK) said he had been denied Secret Service protection, a resource provided to all major presidential candidates since 1968.
RFK Jr is the poster child for secret service protection, which makes the news all the more bizarre given his father was assassinated during his campaign.
Kennedy said Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told him that protection was “not warranted at this time” after numerous requests to the Department of Homeland Security-led panel.
“Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days,” Kennedy said on Twitter.
“After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request,” he added.
RFJ Jr stated that Secretary Mayorkas had told him that the panel “determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time.”
“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,” Kennedy added.
Protection is provided to “major” presidential and vice-presidential candidates and their families within 120 days of a general presidential election.
There were over 550 days until the 2024 presidential election when Kennedy submitted his request for secret service protection and over a year until the 120-day period came into effect.
The Secret Service has “no role in determining who is to be considered a major candidate,” and the decision is left to Mayorkas, with the help of the Speaker of the House, House Minority Whip, Senate Majority Leader, Senate Minority Leader, and “one additional member chosen by the committee.”
The criteria used to analyze if the candidate warrants protection includes whether they have polled at or above 15 percent for 30 consecutive days.
According to FiveThirtyEight, while Kennedy has hovered around that mark, he dipped below within the timeframe.
However, many reacted to Kennedy’s announcement with shock, given his family’s grim history of being targeted with political violence.
Meanwhile, Conservative host and former Secret Service Dan Bongino reacted to the news.
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Good,
the Secret Service is a Federal Reserve force and killed his uncle.
get your own like Trump did, he knew and didn’t trust the SS.
What did you expect from the Khazarian Mafia Leader Alejandro Mayorkas? The TRIBE has spoken!
Mayorkas is commie zionut filth scum and should be shot in the face.
The Cia/Mossad took out both JFK and RFK, this is so disgusting, this administration is just pure evil, their strings are being pulled by pure evil…