Darrell Castle talks about the refusal of Joe Biden to provide Secret Service protection to his rival for the Democrat nomination for the office of President of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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DESPICABLE DENIAL

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 29th day of September in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about the refusal of Joe Biden to provide Secret Service protection to his rival for the Democrat nomination for the office of President of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. That denial is unprecedented and considering the family history of Mr. Kennedy I call it despicable.

Before I get started, I need to tell you that the 11th of next month is my 75th birthday and my wife has two weeks of parties planned to celebrate my life with her and then I have the Constitution Party National Committee Meeting to attend so I will not be able to continue this effort for the next three weeks.

I have investigated the rules of the Secret Service as I have been able because it is after all Secret. The secrecy of the Secret Service is understandable given the job of protecting the highest value targets for every terrorist and political nut job in this world. I was able to determine some basic rules or policies as far as who gets the protection and who doesn’t. It seems that a general rule is that if a candidate requests protection he or she gets it.

My understanding is that within 120 days of a presidential election each candidate with 15% of the vote is entitled to protection. Outside the 120-day deadline it is at the pleasure of the president of the United States through the person we now refer to as the secretary of Homeland Security. I’ve never liked that name, by the way, “Homeland Security” because it sounds so German, or Russian, but no one asked me when the name was chosen.

In the present case of RFK, Jr., my understanding is that he has three times gone to the Secret Service and has three times been refused. The most recent time he requested protection was after he had a very credible death threat from a credible and armed intruder. So, an armed intruder threatened him but the Secretary of Homeland Security said that he had determined that the candidate had not demonstrated a need for protection.

My understanding is that the Secretary works directly for the president and the president makes the decision so President Biden decided that Robert Kennedy would not get the protection. It is hard for me to find a reason for the denial that is not despicable. Terms like petty, and vindictive come to mind but the best term is despicable. How many despicable acts does a person have to commit before we are willing to call him a despicable person? I don’t have to remind you that his uncle and father were each assassinated and that his name alone makes him a target.

He has hired private security and in the video interview I saw of him explaining who and why he hired the firm he chose; he said that the firm is headed by the most respected name in Washington private protection. I’m told that he now spends 30% of his campaign budget on private security which of course is another reason President Biden has chosen not to allow protection. His only current challenger for the nomination is forced to spend 30% of his budget to protect his life making it more difficult to speak and make people aware of his views.

Kennedy has the audacity to challenge a sitting president so in his most petty and despicable way the president denies the challenger the protection that might possibly save his life. Said another way the President of the United States doesn’t really care if Robert Kennedy is murdered in his efforts to gain the presidency. That’s the man holding the office of president and the leader of the free world. Who would want such a petty, vindictive man in the smallest office let alone the largest?