RFK Jr. Pleads with Public to Help Get Him Secret Service Protection: ‘Another Intruder Broke Into My House’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pleading with the public to help convince the Biden administration to give him a Secret Service detail after he said he’s been targeted multiple times at his home and on the campaign trail.
The independent candidate for president posted a nearly three-minute campaign video to social media making a case for why he wants his supporters to sign a petition demanding he be protected.
“You might have heard that yet another intruder broke into my house this week, and returned to my house again shortly after the police released him,” Kennedy said on the video. “Last month, an armed gunman using falsified U.S. Marshal badges and phony federal ID, and carrying an arsenal in his backpack, tried to approach me at a speech in Los Angeles, a short distance from where my dad was assassinated.”
You can’t have a functioning democracy when candidates aren’t safe. Whether or not you support my campaign, please sign this petition urging the White House to grant me Secret Service protection.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) May 5, 2024
Kennedy’s father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, both died by assassins’ bullets in the 1960s. Kennedy said that “every presidential candidate since the 1970s who’s asked for protection has received it,” including his Uncle, Ted Kennedy, in 1980.
Kennedy continued, “However, President Biden has made the historic decision to deny me a Secret Service detail. I’m the only one whose request in history has ever been denied. I don’t spend time worrying about my personal safety, but I do worry about the safety of my family, and their sense of well-being. And about the safety of bystanders if there happens to be a more serious incident,” Kennedy said.
He added, “In its threat assessment, the Secret Service concluded that I am at an elevated risk,” and accused Biden of making a “naked political calculation” to keep him unprotected.
CNN reported, “Federal law authorizes Secret Service protection for ‘major’ presidential and vice presidential candidates,” to be determined by the secretary of Homeland Security.
A recent poll had Kennedy at 13% of the vote in a three-way race with Joe Biden and Donald Trump. He said recently that he can win the election with only 33% of the vote, claiming he’s already “close to that in a bunch of states.”
In March, Kennedy told Fox News that his campaign racked up $1.4 million in debt paying a private security firm for his protection.
Watch the clip above via X (formerly Twitter).
