Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to Twitter Friday to complain that his request for secret service safety has been denied. “Because the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are offered Secret Service safety,” he tweeted. “However not me.”
Kennedy needs particular therapy and taxpayer-funded safety, and he’s shameless sufficient to invoke his father’s assassination to get it, which simply provides to how a lot of an asshole he’s. At any fee, there’s nothing uncommon within the denial of his request. In truth, granting it will be a departure from standard practice.
The service is offered to “main presidential and vice presidential candidates” after consideration by the Secretary of the Division of Homeland Safety and an advisory committee that features congressional management of each events. They take into account various components, together with polling thresholds and “a selected evaluation of threats towards that candidate.” Kennedy’s marketing campaign doesn’t cut it relating to polling proper now. The “67-page report from the world’s main safety agency” that Kennedy says he offered the committee appears to not have satisfied them there was justification.
The Secret Service’s FAQ says they usually present safety for candidates and their spouses “inside 120 days of a basic presidential election.” Within the 2004 election, frontrunner John Kerry didn’t get safety till the primaries had begun in February of that yr. The earliest a candidate has obtained safety was about 9 months earlier than the primaries in 2007, when former President Barack Obama’s personal marketing campaign safety was changed by the Secret Service in May 2007. As the primary outstanding Black candidate for president, he wanted it for fairly apparent causes. President Joe Biden didn’t get it till March 2020.
Which takes us again to Kennedy and this a part of his tweet: “Typical turnaround time for professional forma safety requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after a number of follow-ups by our marketing campaign, the Biden Administration simply denied our request.”
That looks as if a contrived effort to incorporate these particular numbers, which carry significance for white supremacists and neo-Nazis. The Anti-Defamation League deems them “hate symbols.” The “14-day” bit appears to have been plucked out of skinny air—it would not seem wherever on the Secret Service’s web site, and information studies about different candidates’ safety don’t point out it. And Kennedy simply occurred to get the rejection on the 88th day after he submitted the request? Actually?
Given the company he’s been keeping, what this tweet actually looks like is one other name to his neo-Nazi fan base.
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