Posted on 07/19/2024 10:50:57 AM PDT by Angelino97
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will start receiving U.S. Secret Service protection following an attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump over the weekend, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Monday.
“In light of this weekend’s events, the President has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy Jr.,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced during a White House press briefing held on Monday. Mayorkas also mentioned that the Secret Service had increased and would continue to enhance security measures for Trump, although he said he could not provide specifics.
Following the announcement of his Secret Service protection, Kennedy thanked President Joe Biden via social media, saying, “Thank you to President Biden for granting me Secret Service protection. And I am so grateful to Gavin deBecker & Associates for keeping me safe for the last 15 months of my Presidential campaign.”
The Kennedy campaign has been urging the Biden administration since last year to provide him with Secret Service protection but has been repeatedly denied, even in the face of previous altercations. Until now, the campaign had outsourced Kennedy’s security needs to Gavin de Becker & Associates, a private security consulting firm.
According to FEC filings from the beginning of the campaign, the Kennedy campaign has spent nearly $3 million on security services from Gavin de Becker & Associates.
“Following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, some of his security detail has been transferred to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.” /sarc
They just arrived from Butler PA.
...with a bad case of PTSD...
If somebody banged a wall near them I would bet half of them would hit the ground with guns drawn at this point....
I don’t know if this is true, but I had heard that Trump himself requested that Kennedy have protection. And that was before Saturday. PDJT actually cares about people — all people — even his opponents.
It’s a vicious crime that he didn’t have protection from the start.
Other than a lone kook working on his own, they’re not going to bother RFKjr, unless he starts seriously drawing voters from democrats.
With protection like that who needs an assassination attempt?
He did, and clearly does.
It merely shows how shallow, childish and short-thinking Biden’s closest advisors and Fed.gov apparatchiks are.
ms. cheatle: we have granted RFK jr Secret Service protection... of course, we had to pull from former president trump’s detail... not the dei hires, but the real ones.
Trump requesting security for Kennedy reminds me a little of how he held back from walking on stage until Ben Carson did. Respect for people, even opponents.
He should probably reconsider SS protection. Maybe hire a retired mall cop?
Yes. He has and shows respect for people as people. He puts himself in their shoes and acts accordingly.
They call it protection.
Could be a hit job.
In Deep State lingo SS protection can be akin to hit.
Of all people to deny protection...That “do not protect” came from the top...
Maybe Trump will give RFK Jr. Fauci’s old job.
If the democrats can’t assassinate the competition at least look like you care?.
‘bout time.
“Maybe Trump will give RFK Jr. Fauci’s old job.”
That might be a good idea. Fauci would hate it; it would rot his socks - LOL.
Of course, seriously, I’d want to know ALL departments that Fauci controlled. We might not want Kennedy’s fingers in every facet.
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