WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 16: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visits "Special Report with Bret Baier" at FOX News D.C. Bureau on May 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Shannon Finney/Getty Images)
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will receive Secret Service protection after the attempted assassination of the former president.
On Saturday, the former president was shot in the ear during a rally in western Pennsylvania around 6:15 p.m. EST. Eyewitness video showed blood had been streaming from his ear while Secret Service agents rushed to surround him.
He was not seriously injured and was taken to a local hospital for examination.
One attendee was killed, and two were severely injured.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that Kennedy received Secret Service protection on Monday.
“We are in a heightened and very dynamic threat,” Mayorkas stated during a White House briefing.
“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, both before and after the events of this past weekend,” the Homeland Security Secretary added. “The Secret Service enhanced former President’s protection based on the evolving nature of threats to the former president and his imminent shift from presumptive nominee to nominee.”
Mayorkas also stated that both President Joe Biden and the former president were subjected to death threats before and after the former president was subject to an assassination attempt.
He said he was directed to work with the Secret Service also to offer protection to Kennedy.
In addition, Kennedy security consultant Gavin deBecker said during the weekend that his campaign requested Secret Service protection pending with the Department of Homeland Security.
“Thank you to President Biden for granting me Secret Service protection,” Kennedy wrote on X on July 15. “And I am so grateful to Gavin deBecker & Associates for keeping me safe for the last 15 months of my Presidential campaign.”
In an exclusive uInterview, iconic actor Jon Voight criticized Biden last month for not granting Kennedy Secret Service protection.
In early July, Kennedy denied a Vanity Fair report which claimed that he ate the carcass of a dog.
On July 2, the magazine published an article showing a photograph of him, which had been taken in 2010, posing with and pretending to take a bite of an animal’s barbecued carcass.
Kennedy claimed on social media after this story was published that the image showed the carcass of a goat in Patagonia, contrary to what he had texted his friend.
Back in late May, Kennedy got mixed reactions on social media for his proposal to put the American budget on blockchain to make government spending more transparent.
Some members of the cryptocurrency community argue that this plan would cease corruption, while those against it also argue that Kennedy was using the proposal to promote his Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) agenda.
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