Brian Kilmeade Aghast at RFK Jr’s Claim Biden Is Behind His Not Getting Secret Service: ‘Does He Know Your Dad Was Assassinated?!’

Independent presidential candidate and outspoken vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox & Friends on Tuesday that President Joe Biden was the reason he didn’t have Secret Service protection.

After Kennedy reiterated his claims that Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than former President Donald Trump, who took actions to overturn the 2020 election and was indicted for charges related to those actions, he also re-upped his claim that Biden was “weaponizing” federal agencies to keep him off the ballot and deny him Secret Service protection:

If you have a president who can censor his political opponents, he is licensed for any kind of atrocity, that is a genuine threat to our democracy. I think, you know what President Trump said about, you know, questioning the election and, you know, and to the extent that he engaged in an effort to overthrow that, of course, that’s a threat to democracy, but it is not the worst threat. Undermining the First Amendment of our Constitution and then weaponizing the federal agencies, to get his opponents off the ballot. You know, in my case, I’ll just say particularly, denying me Secret Service protection. That’s never happened in history.

These claims have been debunked before, as recently as yesterday. As an independent candidate, Kennedy is not even entitled to Secret Service protection. But there is also no evidence that Biden was involved in “denying” Kennedy Secret Service protection. Rather than push back on the claim, the co-hosts of Fox & Friends dug into it:

Lawrence Jones: You think he’s behind that?

Kennedy: What?

Jones: Do you think Joe Biden is behind…?

Kennedy: Of course he is.

Brian Kilmeade: Does he know that your dad was assassinated?

Kennedy: He has a bust of my father behind him.

Kilmeade: So how does he sleep at night?

Kennedy: Well, I don’t know, but it’s not, it’s just not right. You know, all of this, the use of the courts, the use of prosecutors, the use of all these federal agencies to change our political landscape just is wrong, and we should be debating about it.

Watch the video above via Fox News.

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