“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
The next scandal on Joe Biden’s pile could be a dead body.
Republicans say the president has weaponized government against his foes, from President Donald Trump, to pro-life families, to parents asking why their daughter was raped in a “unisex” high school bathroom — but he may have gone too far this time.
He’s denying police protection to a politician who’s facing death threats… because, critics say, that politician threatens his future.
Joe Biden has refused to provide Secret Service protection for Democratic primary rival Robert F. Kennedy Jr., even though the presidential contender has received numerous twisted threats this election cycle.
“Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me,” RFK Jr. tweeted in July.
Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me.
Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several…— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 28, 2023
Kennedy’s campaign requested Secret Service protection for the candidate — whose father and uncle’s assassinations still haunt American history — and got turned down cold by the Biden administration.
RFK Jr. said that although government officials usually respond within two weeks, the Biden administration did nothing for 88 days… then told him he was on his own — even though he included “a 67-page report from the world’s leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats.”
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“I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F. Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time,” replied Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
But the threat to another Kennedy running for president is undeniable even to the Biden administration. The Kennedy campaign has produced a collection of verified death threats against the presidential candidate.
Judicial Watch obtained 11 pages of documents proving that the Biden administration knows the assassination threat is real—and is denying Kennedy protection, anyway.
One person mailed a letter to the hotel where Kennedy was staying, warning that a “madman” might commit a “serious terrorist act,” Secret Service records show.
Another person “regularly sends threatening emails, stating he will ‘bury’ Kennedy, ‘everyone will die,’ and that he will make Kennedy ‘suffer,’” according to the Secret Service documents.
Another person’s threatening “letter contained a 32-page manifesto in which” the possible assassin “made nonsensical religious references and described himself as a ‘commissioned messenger of God.’”
RFK Jr. has attracted crazies, including a woman who mailed him a wedding ring and has made angry remarks about security keeping her away from him, and a man who believes RFK Jr. is paying spies to follow him around.
“Many comments suggested that, for no other reason than that he is a Kennedy, he would be at risk of assassination,” according to the assessment, obtained by Judicial Watch.
RFK Jr.’s security adviser, famed author Gavin de Becker, took to social media to crowdsource adequate protection for the last heir of Camelot.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is under dire security threat!
He is targeted, and the Biden administration REFUSED to give him Secret Service protection.
His security advisor, Gavin de Becker, explains this and asks for your help!https://t.co/8Efhy37WHu
— Igor Chudov (@ichudov) October 6, 2023
Kennedy’s demanding protection, with campaign manager and former Congressman Dennis Kucinich following up on his request late last month…but so far, he has nothing to show for it.
“The Biden administration’s refusal to provide Secret Service protection to Mr. Kennedy is dangerous and vindictive,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Our new lawsuit aim to get the full truth on why Mr. Kennedy’s life is being put at unnecessary risk by the Biden administration.”
Biden — who was regularly compared to the Kennedys early in his career — has needled his presidential rival by refusing to release records in the John F. Kennedy assassination, which are long past due for public release.
There’s no doubt that RFK Jr. has given Biden headaches, winning up to one in five Democratic voters in some polls. And as Kennedy’s announcement Friday made obvious, he and the issues he cares about won’t be fading from public view any time soon.
Biden’s defenders say Secret Service is usually only given to “major” candidates 120 days before the election, but Biden has had no problem stretching the use of the Secret Service.
People claiming to be from the Secret Service barged into the gun shop where Hunter Biden illegally purchased a handgun and demanded the owner turn over the form—the incriminating evidence—to them.
If he had complied, Hunter Biden could have skated with that crime, too.
Secret Service agents also raided the home of citizen journalists who obtained the diary of Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley Biden.
Why would Joe Biden deny Secret Service protection to a member of the most haunted family in American political history?
It could be that Biden’s weaponization of government is deeper, darker, and more literal than any of us could have ever imagined.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”