On Friday, former Democratic and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. effectively suspended his campaign and endorsed the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump.

That same day, the U.S. Secret Service withdrew its protective detail that Kennedy had finally just received a little more than a month earlier, according to the New York Post.

The shocking move is sure to spark controversy and will likely bolster arguments that the Biden-Harris administration has politicized and weaponized the protective agency against their political rivals.

Multiple requests for Secret Service protection denied for months

In mid-July, Newsweek reported at length on the then-months-long ongoing battle between Kennedy and his campaign against Department of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas over his repeated denials of Kennedy's request for Secret Service protection as a presidential candidate.

That battle, which involved the release of a document that outlined dozens of known threats and assassination attempts against Kennedy, also involved at least six separate denials by Mayorkas of Kennedy's legitimate request.

The denials were based on a variety of excuses, none of which held up to scrutiny, and led to claims from Kennedy and others that he was being purposefully denied the extra protection he was legally entitled to because he had attempted to challenge President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary.

As of the time of that Newsweek article, Kennedy -- who personally witnessed as a child the 1968 assassination of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, that led to Secret Service protection being extended to presidential candidates -- was still being denied any protection despite ample evidence of legitimate threats of politically-motivated violence against him.

Secret Service protection immediately withdrawn

Just a few days later, however, after the July 13 attempted assassination of former President Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, the Post reported that President Biden specifically authorized Secret Service protection for his political rival Kennedy.

Yet, on the same day that Kennedy expressed his support for former President Trump's campaign, that protection was immediately withdrawn -- a move that has been confirmed to the Post by law enforcement sources as well as an unnamed spokesperson for the federal protective agency.

"That’s correct. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no longer receiving US Secret Service protection," the spokesperson replied when asked by the news outlet.

This comes as Kennedy is still technically a presidential candidate with a long-shot chance of winning if the election is contested, as he announced that he was only "suspending" but "not terminating" his campaign and would continue to appear on the ballots in all but 10 of the most critical battleground states.

The Post noted that the Kennedy campaign declined to comment when asked about the sudden turn of events over the weekend.

Picked to be part of Trump's transition team

Meanwhile, after his endorsement of former President Trump Friday afternoon, NBC News reported that Kennedy joined Trump on stage at a rally in Arizona to confirm that they had joined forces despite their differences for the greater purpose of defeating Vice President Kamala Harris and working together on a select list of issues upon which they agreed.

Axios later reported that Kennedy revealed in an interview with Tucker Carlson that Trump had also tasked him to be part of his presidential transition team, which will help pick personnel and policies that would be featured in a prospective second Trump term in the White House.