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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the announcement on Friday morning: despite the fact that he is a candidate for the presidency of the United States, the Biden regime has denied him Secret Service protection:
Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me.
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. Secretary Mayorkas: “I have 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.
The Secret Service says that “by law” it is “authorized to protect,” among others, “Major presidential and vice presidential candidates, and their spouses within 120 days of a general presidential election.” Thus, RFK is legally entitled to Secret Service protection only beginning on July 5, 2024, if he is still in the race and Mayorkas deems him a “major candidate” at that time. In practice, however, how soon Secret Service protection is afforded to candidates can be based at least in part on how many death threats the candidate is receiving and how serious these threats are.
That’s why Kennedy’s mention of his campaign’s “67-page report from the world’s leading protection firm, detailing unique and well-established security and safety risks” is relevant. Besides presidential candidates, the Secret Service is obliged to offer protection to various people, including former presidents, children of former presidents until they turn sixteen, and “other individuals as designated per Executive Order of the President.”
What might be some of the reasons to offer “other individuals” Secret Service protection? Consider, for example, the case of a presidential candidate from America’s most prominent political family, a man whose uncle and father were both assassinated, one while he was president of the United States and the other while he was running for president. The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, the present candidate’s uncle, and Robert F. Kennedy, his father, are two of the defining moments in the history of the United States for the past six decades. It is terrible but true: the words “Kennedy” and “assassination” are forever linked in American history and culture — and now Alejandro Mayorkas says that Secret Service protection for RFK Jr is “not warranted.”
If we had any actual journalists, one of them should drop by Jimmy Carter in hospice care and ask him what he thinks of this. When another one of the uncles of RFK Jr., Ted Kennedy, was running for president in 1980, Carter didn’t hesitate. The Washington Post reported on Sept. 21, 1979: “President Carter ordered the Secret Service yesterday to provide immediate protection for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D.Mass.), whose consideration of a presidential campaign has raised the fear of an assassination attempt such as those that struck down two of his brothers.”
Even before that, in May 1972, President Richard Nixon ordered Secret Service protection for Ted Kennedy, as well as Reps. Shirley Chisholm of New York and Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, after Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, who was at the time a serious contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, was shot and paralyzed for life at a campaign rally.
Ted Kennedy was trying to subject Carter to the humiliation of being dropped by his own party and denied the chance to run again after his undeniably disastrous single term as president. Nixon counted Kennedy, as well as Chisholm, among his political enemies. But these considerations did not stop either Carter or Nixon from having the basic decency to realize that there would be all sorts of psychopaths and assorted nuts looking to be the next Kennedy assassin and taking action accordingly.
Old Joe Biden and his henchmen do not have that basic decency. This gang of Marxists, opportunists, deviants, and hacks has made it abundantly clear, with its Disinformation Governance Board and its ongoing efforts to silence dissent on social media, that it hates opposition and is determined to crush it. And where they cannot yet silence opponents, they can intimidate and endanger them. That’s what Mayorkas’ decision was all about, and it is yet one more among innumerable reasons why Americans, whomever they support, must repudiate this repulsive and criminal regime decisively at the ballot box in 2024.
I’m fairly certain that the last thing he needs is to employ the very people who are most likely to assassinate him.
Please. The SS wouldn’t assassinate Kennedy.
The FBI, CIA and paid assassins would be glad to, though.
If Kennedy is attacked, you can bet the farm it’ll be some unhinged leftist that was on the fbi’s and local democrat run authorities’ radar.
It’s instructive that even retired anthony fauxi has a taxpayer funded security detail, given by the biden regime.
Radar.
Or payroll.
Fraudci. Why am I not surprised? He’s an integral piece (of shit) in Dirtbagocrat collusion to control the American populace. Us peons, anyway. The moneyed interests are protected by by their collusion and monetary contributions to the American NSDAP.
Or well-funded deep state apparatchik, or Big Pharma Cartel Assassin.
No worries. Democrats know what to do about errant Kennedys.
The Dems certainly didn’t want the Kennedys to clean up crime or stop foreign wars!
Or pork Marilyn Monroe.
This administration’s obfuscation of responsibilities is only surpassed by their open willingness to do such. One would think that an administration who’s increasingly being viewed under the microscope would tend to pull back on the throttle a little bit…but not this one. Their arrogance will be their undoing.
They have more than one way of “silencing opponents’ ?
The Biden Administration is devoid of decency. Period. Full stop.
Well, the person at the top is an odious, dishonest, corrupt, nasty, vicious person. So that certainly “trickles down” to the entire administration.
It’s actively malevolent.
WHAT IS BIDEN AFRAID OF?????? RFK QUALIFIES FOR SECURITY!!!!! (ESPECIALLY HIM BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS DEATHS???). BIDEN IS PROBABLY HOPING THAT SOMETHING HAPPENS TO HIM…..THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER POPULAR CHALLENGER HE HAS TO DEAL WITH???? THE BIDENS HAVE AND ARE CRIMINAL IN TRYING TO GET RID OF TRUMP!!!!!! THE DEMS/FRAUDS ARE “TOTALLY” FEARFUL OF HIM GETTING RE-ELECTED!!!!!!! THEY KNOW THAT THE TERRIBLE THINGS THEY HAVE DONE TO THE AMERICAN POEPLE WILL BE CORRECTED!!!!!! “AND”. AMERICA WILL PROSPER AGAIN!!!!!!!!! THIS IS SOMETHING THEY DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT!!!!!!!
None of this should surprise anyone. Our sitting president was more installed than elected, he’s done NOTHING right in his first two years, his son is a salacious womanizer and drug addict, and waiting in the wings is a ditzy gigglebox with no comprehension of foreign policy. Yet for two years these people have been given a pass. There is nothing logical about any of this.
Right now RFK jr is the strongest candidate to defeat the president. He is also highly critical of the intelligence community and has committed himself to releasing all documents regarding the JKF assassination. That has people scared. Corrupt Biden can be controlled, RFK jr can’t be so easily. His lack of protection is no surprise. I pray for him.
All true except that Trump is the only person who has a chance of beating the Dirtbagocrat corruption machine, which is why he’s being persecuted illegally.
I don’t think he can beat their vote fraud machine, though. It beat him last time and there’s no reason to think it won’t do it again after four more years to hone their craft. God help us.
I agree. Anyone with a bit of brain matter knows the election in 2020 was a total fraud and stolen from President Trump People know it, the Dems know it and the MSM certainly knows it and those in DC in power could care less and this includes the FBI, DOJ and IRS!!
I misspoke. I meant to say the strongest Democrat candidate. My bad…
Anyone who is a threat to win the Presidency because of sane policies and supports America as a free and sovereign nation, is a threat to the Deep State!
GOD above will make sure biden pays for these actions. Horrible president.
But not until he’s dead.
He needs to pay now.
RFK’s uncle had secret service protection & we will never be sure if they helped the assassin or not.
https://nytimes.com/2007/05/04/us/politics/04obama.html – Obama protection 19 months before election ……Secret Service Guards Obama, Taking Unusually Early Step – The New York Times
Yeah, that black skin privilege pays off, even for fake negros like Bareback.
That’s a Mafia move. The Biden crime family have put a target on RFK’s back.
The Obamaxrats including Joe OBiden seem to savor murder (I.e. by CCP fentanyl) death and child trafficking,(the result of their horrendous policy of open borders) and seemed to savor the murder of Ashley Babbit on Jan 6th – so why make such a fuss about a heated political opponent? Political assasination attempts every week against Trump and America, etc. Its all part of their “persona”
In the real world, Biden who at great risk.
I never thought I would see the day when the actual Democrat Party will not do everything in their power to protect an member of the Kennedy Clan.
But then common sense just aint common anymore.
Trump 2024 or America is done and dusted.
Who is going to kill RFK?
He had no chance of getting elected. Even if he got the den nomination, DJT would eat his lunch during a debate.
Everyone is so enamored with his vaccine stance and anti deep state credentials they don’t push him on any of the other important issues.
He says on his website that no one is despicable.
Pedophiles?
FAUCHI?
People that want abortions e months AFTER BIRTH?
I consider those people DESPICABLE. I don’t agree with RFK they have a valid point and we need to negotiate with them.