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Trump calls for RFK Jr. to receive Secret Service protection: ‘Right thing to do’
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Former President Donald Trump demanded on Monday that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. receive Secret Service protection, calling it the “right thing to do.”“Given the history of the Kennedy Family, this is the obvious right thing to do!” he added.

Trump's Florida case stunningly dismissed after judge finds appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution Secret Service blames local police, says they were tasked with securing properties surrounding Trump rallyThe gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, killed one rally-goer and left two others critically wounded before he was shot and killed by authorities.in the 1960s, has made repeated requests for Secret Service protection since launching his bid for the White House – first as a Democrat and later as an independent – but he has been denied by the Biden administration.conducted by the Secret Service and obtained by Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group, last September showed that the agency determined Kennedy Jr., was at an elevated “risk for adverse attention” but still denied him a protective security detail. The Secret Service is authorized to protect major presidential and vice presidential candidates, identified as such by the secretary of Homeland Security, within 120 days of a presidential election. Calls have grown for Kennedy Jr., to receive Secret Service protection in the aftermath of Saturday’s Trump rally shooting. Reps. Mike Lawler and Ritchie Torres announced Sunday that they plan to introduce bipartisan legislation that would provide “enhanced Secret Service protection” to Kennedy Jr., Trump and President Biden. Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has also urged Biden to grant Kennedy Jr.’s request for protection.The independent candidate’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and his father, then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, was fatally shot in 1968.BlackRock pulls ad that featured would-be Trump assassin Shannen Doherty’s friend slams late ‘Charmed’ star’s estranged husband Kurt Iswarienko’s lack of ‘humanity’

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