Biden Admin Refused More Security to Trump and RFK Jr.

Stunning information was revealed recently — that the Biden administration refused extra protection from the Secret Service for both presidential candidates Robert Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump.

On repeated occasions, RFK Jr. said he requested protection from the Secret Service, but President Joe Biden refused to give it to him. Kennedy even said that he begged for it at one point after his home was broken into twice in a single day, but to no avail.

The security denial for Kennedy is ironic, seeing as his father — the former attorney general of the U.S. — as well as his uncle — former President John F. Kennedy — were both assassinated.

The fact that Trump was denied extra Secret Service protection is somewhat scary, too, considering an assassination attempt was carried out on him at a rally a little more than a week ago.

In the last two years, Trump’s campaign requested additional security details, according to a Gateway Pundit report. But, those requests were all denied.

Trump already gets some security detail from the Secret Service as a former president.

The Washington Post was the first media outlet to report this news. Officials from Secret Service have since come out and said that the extra security details couldn’t always be provided for Trump because the department has limited resources.

But, according to the department, the request for extra detail didn’t relate to the attempt on Trump’s life that happened during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.

As Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesperson for the Secret Service, said:

“In some instances where specific Secret Service specialized units or resources were not provided, the agency made modifications to ensure the security of the protectee. This may include utilizing state or local partners to provide specialized functions or otherwise identifying alternatives to reduce public exposure of a protectee.”

This statement is an about-face of what the department originally said. Secret Service initially said claims that they turned down requests from Trump’s team for more security were “absolutely false.” Now, they are singing a new tune.

Secret Service is undergoing extra scrutiny in the wake of the assassination attempt. Kimberly Cheatle, the agency’s director, has been pressed repeatedly to explain how security lapses could’ve allowed the gunman to get on top of a rooftop that close to Trump — about 150 yards away — and take a shot at the former president that nearly killed him.

Many top Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, have already called for Cheatle to resign. Thus far, she has said she won’t be stepping down.

On Sunday, Republican Representative Mike Turner of Ohio, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said on the “Face the Nation” program on CBS:

“Of course she needs to be fired. President Biden should fire her. She’s clearly not going to resign.”

Cheatle is scheduled to appear in Washington this week to be grilled by lawmakers across multiple hearings about what might’ve went wrong on the day of the rally.