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This @jeremyrhammond article makes clear that the Biden administration is the outlier among past administrations, all of which afforded Secret Service protection to presidential candidates who requested it. #Kennedy24https://t.co/FHPE9HOsTD
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 8, 2023
Introduction
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was killed by gunfire while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
On June 5, 1968, JFK’s brother Robert F. Kennedy, a New York Senator and presidential candidate, was shot multiple times during a campaign event at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. He died from his gunshot wounds the next day.
On June 6, 1968, the same day that RFK died, President Lyndon B. Johnson directed the United States Secret Service (USSS) to provide protection to presidential candidates.
On July 27, 2023, JFK’s nephew and RFK’s son Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a candidate for the 2024 presidential election, received a letter from the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, notifying him that his request to receive protection from the United States Secret Service (USSS) had been denied.
The next day, RFK Jr. published a post on the social media site Twitter (now rebranded “X”) informing the public about the Biden administration’s denial of Secret Service protection.
The tweet immediately went viral and at the time of this writing has received over 30 million views, over 111,000 likes, and over 31,000 retweets. The likes and shares were accompanied by an outpouring of expressions of care and concern for a presidential candidate whose father was assassinated on the campaign trail and whose uncle is among the four US presidents who have been assassinated while in office.
But the response from the mainstream media has instead been to criticize RFK Jr. for publishing the post, and in so doing, they have demonstrated extreme prejudice against him by grounding their criticisms in falsehoods.
The media’s misinformation has also been widely spread on social media, including by members of a Twitter feature called “Community Notes”. User-generated “Notes” have been appended to Kennedy’s post ostensibly providing “additional context” but instead deceiving readers about the situation.
By examining the facts and setting the record straight, we can see how major media outlets have responded to Kennedy’s post by engaging in political propaganda instead of journalism.
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Robert F Kennedy Jr.is my favorite human being. He recognizes that the pharmaceutical industry is a parasite on the back of humanity. Woe betide them for what they are doing to the children of the world.
This excellent, extremely detailed and troubling article deserves widespread distribution and attention.
It was recently mentioned in this interview with RFK Jr by Tucker Carlson. The scandalous and unprecedented denial of Secret Service coverage is a scandal and deserves full scale investigation and Congressional hearings.
RFK Jr. additionally discusses issues central to the presidential campaign. He explains Ukraine bio-labs, who killed his uncle, the border, how Russia can shoot down our nukes but we can’t shoot down theirs, who owns the top U.S. defense contractors (Blackrock, State Street, Vanguard), the anthrax attacks , Iraq, the Patriot Act, and other issues.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1691228480556429312?s=20
Joe,
Yes, I was honored that Bobby Kennedy mentioned me and this article in his interview with Tucker Carlson. I published this short write-up about the interview yesterday:
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2023/08/15/rfk-jr-on-tucker-carlson/
I noticed Tucker seemed skeptical about what Kennedy was saying about the anthrax attacks. My write-up includes a link to an article I wrote way back when documenting pretty much everything he was saying.
Please help us to find a petition to sign that would demand secret service protection for Mr. Kennedy.
Thank you!
Secret Service should protected his uncle also, but somebody told them to stand down from his car just minutes before assassination:
https://youtu.be/hEX2VqBe3xE
It does seem that way to me from video I’ve seen.
Reagan and the other 4 candidates only received protection in January 1980, not 1979. The NY Times article you’ve linked to is from Oct 1979, stating that the candidates’ protection would start in January. So it was not over 660 days as you state but less than 300 days in fact.
Hi Thera,
Thank you so much for pointing out this error! I have corrected it.