Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the main Democrat primary challenger to President Joe Biden, said Friday on X (formerly Twitter) that the Biden administration denied him Secret Service protection that he had requested months earlier and that is customary for early presidential candidates.

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

"Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection.  But not me," Kennedy tweeted.

"Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days.  After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request," he added.

"Not warranted"

"Secretary Mayorkas: "I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time," Kennedy quoted, adding that his campaign provided 67 pages of details about security risks.

Techinically, the law says that major candidates should get Secret Service protection 120 days before a general election, and the mainstream media was quick to point out that it's way further out than that.

But Breitbart and Politico pointed out that other major candidates have gotten Secret Service protection this early.

Barack Obama got it in May 2007, and Donald Trump and Ben Carson got it in 2015.

Biden tactics

It's not surprising that the administration would deny him protection, given that Biden is currently trying to put his biggest GOP rival in jail.

Maybe some crazy person will try to assassinate RFK Jr. and get him out of the way as a threat to Biden's very weak candidacy, the administration may figure.

At the very least, the administration is sending a clear message that RFK Jr. is irrelevant as a candidate, even though he is likely to weaken Biden in much the same way that his father weakened Lyndon Johnson to the point that Johnson decided not to run again.

Or at least the way his uncle Ted Kennedy weakened Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Why the concern?

Why would RFK Jr. be concerned about assassination anyway? People might be wondering.

If my uncle and father were both assassinated at the height of their political ambitions, I think I'd be very concerned as well. It only takes one mentally ill person who gets the idea to wipe out the last of the Kennedy family.