A heavily armed man who posed as RFK’s security was arrested at a campaign rally.
This comes after RFK’s unsuccessful requests for Secret Service protection since declaring candidacy in April.
RFK’s security detail did not recognize the man, who was heavily armed, in protective gear, and with a U.S. Marshal badge, and detained him until police arrived on the scene.
In his tweet, Kennedy said that he is “still entertaining a hope that President Biden will allow” him protection from a Secret Service detail.
“I am the first presidential candidate in history to whom the White House has denied a request for protection,” his tweet said.
However, CNN refutes that claim saying that “the vast majority of candidates in modern presidential primaries never receive Secret Service protection because they are not deemed ‘major’ candidates — and it would be nearly unprecedented for even a major candidate to receive protection this early in a campaign if they did not already have it on account of currently or previously serving in the White House.”
Kennedy Jr. is the son of Robert F. Kennedy, a well-known American politician and brother of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.Â
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