{"id":762,"date":"2023-07-28T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2023-07-28T09:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T15:35:22","slug":"biden-rejects-rfk-jr-request-for-secret-service-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/biden-rejects-rfk-jr-request-for-secret-service-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Rejects RFK Jr. Request for Secret Service Protection. . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Really unbelievable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Joe Biden has rejected Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s request for Secret Service protection as a Presidential Candidate. This despite the obvious history of assassinations against the Kennedy family (President JFK 1963; Robert F. Kennedy in 1968), including RFK Jr.&#8217;s own dad. Also, RFK Jr. is polling near 20% against Joe Biden &#8211; a significant amount of support. Biden just doesn&#8217;t want to admit he has a challenger for the nomination. It is irresponsible to deny this request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. \u00a0But not me.<br>\u00a0<br>Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. \u00a0After 88-days of no response and after several\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1684909385376575488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really unbelievable. President Joe Biden has rejected Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s request for Secret Service protection as a Presidential Candidate. This despite the obvious history of assassinations against the Kennedy family (President JFK 1963; Robert F. Kennedy in 1968), including RFK Jr.&#8217;s own dad. Also, RFK Jr. is polling near 20% against Joe Biden &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5,107,106,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-biden","category-rfk-jr","category-robert-kennedy-jr","category-secret-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}