by Robert F Kennedy, Jr at American Values
A tweet I sent informing people of the Biden administration’s decision to deny me Secret Service protection led to a massive outpouring of support for my safety, for which I am so very grateful. Humbled and grateful.
After tens of millions of people viewed the tweet, the Huffington Post led the corporate media in giddily reporting a bizarre conspiracy theory suggesting that the tweet contained a series of numbers intended to secretly communicate my alleged affinity for neo-Nazi ideology(!).
Now, as if by magic, the underlying issue of the politicization of the Secret Service has disappeared, subsumed in the media by one of the most ridiculous conspiracy theories I’ve ever seen.
Only in the twisted and polarized era of information warfare waged by a partisan mainstream media would I even consider rebutting such absurdities. So here very quickly is what happened: The supposedly meaningful numbers in my tweet came from Gavin de Becker, the world’s leading authority on the protection of public figures. His company has been managing my security team since I announced my run for President. He prepared my application to DHS and liaised with Secret Service officials. You can see his views on media lunacy, along with the detailed timeline from which the numbers in question were drawn, in the internal memos I share below.
Now I hope we can return to the actual issue here. After using government resources…
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