Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s wife sent an emergency request to President Biden begging him to provide Secret Service protection to her husband as he campaigns for the presidency due to his family’s assassination history.

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Actress Cheryl Hines is not bashful about imploring the White House to provide a Secret Service detail for her husband given the previous assassinations in the Kennedy clan. Kennedy is exposed while he is on the campaign trail and the danger to his life is evident. Hines is asking Biden to make an exception and grant him protection immediately.

Hines spoke with TMZ at LAX on Thursday, expressing her fear for her husband’s safety. She was asked about it by reporters due to her husband’s high profile on the campaign trail and because of his family’s tragic history.

The candidate’s wife claims that “great measures” are being employed to assure Kennedy’s safety. But the Secret Service is an added layer of security that is needed. Kennedy’s request for a detail has already been denied by the president which Hines finds very strange and concerning.

Kennedy Jr. was 9 years old when his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963. Five years after that, his father, Robert F. Kennedy, was shot and killed in Los Angeles while running for president.

‘This is evil’: RFK Jr evokes father’s assassination after he’s DENIED Secret Service protection https://t.co/b0jMBwUu3x via @BIZPACReview

— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) July 28, 2023

It is very early in the campaign and it is not typical for candidates to receive Secret Service protection at this juncture. But given the family history and the overall mood across the nation currently, Hines feels the detail is warranted. If there ever was a need for an exception to be made, Kennedy is it and Hines is asking Biden to reconsider their request.

There is precedent for it. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter provided a Secret Service detail for his competitor Senator Ted Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s late uncle. It was immediately granted upon request, according to TMZ.

“As far as we can tell, I am the first candidate in history to be denied Secret Service protection upon request,” Kennedy said in a statement. “My uncle got Secret Service protection. Teddy had Secret Service protection — 441 days out and he wasn’t even running. President Carter, who he was running against, it was a great personal antipathy between them and nevertheless, he provided him Secret Service protection. John McCain got it 551 days out. Obama got it 551 days out.”

“The excuse that the White House has given is that it is not available until 120 days out is just specious, it’s dishonest, it’s not true,” he accused, pointing a finger directly at President Biden.

What is amazing is that on a thread discussing this, many Dems passionately defended denying security to RFK Jr. Even after being reminded of the assassinations of JFK & RFK, they self-righteously proclaimed that RFK Jr “must play by the rules,” but Obama was different. pic.twitter.com/wQ77Cgcuhk

— Mary (@mpg25mary) July 31, 2023

Democrats appear to view Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a threat. President Biden is refusing to debate him – or any Democrat rival – in the run-up to the election and before even one vote has been cast, it’s been declared that he is the defacto nominee. The Democrat Party has written RFK Jr. off but Americans haven’t.

Biden crowned the ‘Democratic nominee’ by his campaign without even one votehttps://t.co/NiTdGmMEhW

— American Wire News (@americanwire_) August 24, 2023

In the first moments of his interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, RFK speculated, “I think the DNC is playing hardball. Let’s say this. I think the least malevolent interpretation that you can put on it is that they know that I’m going to have to have some kind of security service and that typically would cost me … you know, to do real security service, between 100 and 200 thousand dollars a month.”

“It’s very expensive because I’m traveling every day. I think they probably feel like they can bleed me white by, ya know, making sure that I’m not spending that on advertising or organization. That I have to raise a lot of money for my own protection,” he asserted.

Ep. 16 RFK Jr. explains Ukraine, bio-labs, and who killed his uncle pic.twitter.com/RMr5VZVqSM

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 14, 2023

According to the Secret Service website, a candidate is automatically entitled to Secret Service protection 120 days out from a general presidential election.

However, a president, at his discretion, can offer protection to any candidate meeting certain criteria.

Kennedy applied for protection from the Biden administration due to the variety of death threats he is receiving and his family history. His team laid out a very detailed rationale to warrant such protection but he was denied.

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