Under the Biden-Harris leadership, the U. S. Secret Service has removed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s defense after the 2024 separate member suspended his separate campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump on Friday.
On Sunday, Anthony Guglielmi, commander of contacts for the Secret Service, told The Daily Caller,” Mr. Kennedy is no longer a protectee of the US Secret Service”. A rep for the Secret Service likewise confirmed the removal of Kennedy’s Secret Service protection in a statement to The New York Post, saying,” That’s right. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no longer receiving US Secret Service protection”.
After the death test on Trump on July 13 at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden agreed to give him Secret Service protection. Since his brother, original President John Kennedy, and his parents, former Attorney General Robert Kennedy, both died in the murder of assassins, Kennedy personally requested and formally requested that the Biden-Harris administration give him Secret Service protection throughout his separate campaign.
Newsweek reported that at one stage during the separate candidate’s political campaign, Kennedy’s legal team claimed it had information of at least 34 threats against him.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated in response to the assassination attempt against Trump that” the senator has directed me to work with the Secret Service to protect Robert Kennedy, Jr.”
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According to The New York Post, the Secret Service provides security for the president, vice president, immediate family members of the president and vice president, previous presidents, leading presidential candidates, world leaders during visits to the U. S., past second ladies, and children of past presidents until the age of 16. According to the outlet, it is typical for the organization to either lower or terminate presidential candidate protection when they withdraw from elections.
On Friday, Kennedy announced that he was” suspending” his 2024 presidential campaign and endorsing Trump. The independent candidate made it clear that he was” not terminating” his plan and that his name would be on votes in less competitive says as he removed his name from about 10 battleground states.
Kennedy and Trump met with Trump at a rally in Arizona on Friday following his big campaign announcement and pleaded with the people of America to allow the former president to win a second term.
In a Sunday article on X, previously Twitter, Kennedy tweeted,” This is only the beginning. Wait till you see the following changes to President Trump’s Unity Government”.
