Presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. submitted a third request for Secret Service protection to the Biden administration on Wednesday after an intruder was arrested twice in one day after trespassing on his Los Angeles property.
“Yesterday an intruder jumped over the fence of my house and was arrested,” said the independent presidential candidate he tweeted on Thursday. “After being released from police custody that same day, he immediately returned to my house and was arrested again.”
The Los Angeles Police Department identified the alleged intruder as Jonathan Macht, 28, of Pacific Palisades, California.
Macht was arrested on suspicion of trespassing and issued an emergency protective order Wednesday morning, according to LAPD, and was arrested again that same day for violating the protective order after Kennedy Jr.’s security team . stopped him outside the presidential candidate’s house.
The intruder was arrested twice in one day outside Kennedy Jr.’s Los Angeles home. GC Images RFK Jr was home at the time of the incident. google maps
A statement from RFK Jr.’s campaign explains that Macht “asked to see the candidate” and that Kennedy Jr. “was home at the time of both arrests.”
The candidate’s father, former New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, were assassinated while in office.
Gavin de Becker & Associates, the private security firm employed by Kennedy Jr., has informed the Secret Service about “this specific obsessed individual several times in recent months and has shared alarming communications that he has sent to the candidate,” according to RFK Jr. s campaign.
“Over the past several months, the campaign has submitted formal requests for Secret Service protection, but U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has refused to approve the protection,” the Kennedy Jr. campaign said in a release.
“Every presidential administration for 55 years has provided early protection to candidates who requested it. The Biden administration is the only outlier,” the campaign states.
Kennedy Jr. announced earlier this month that he would run as an independent in the 2024 presidential election.REUTERS
The campaign described Macht as having an “obsession” with RFK Jr. that leads him to be “at times hostile and angry.”
“The Secret Service is aware that he has sent hundreds of emails to the candidate and believes that he is being followed by people who intend to kill him,” Kennedy Jr’s third formal request to Mayorkas states.
“Given everything that is known, please reconsider your decision to deny Secret Service protection to presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and allow protection to begin as soon as possible,” the request continues. “As provided by law, the Secret Service can help protect the candidate and the electoral process, while reducing the risk to others in the candidate’s environment, including members of the general public.”
Wednesday’s incident follows the arrest of a gunman posing as a U.S. marshal at a Kennedy Jr. campaign event in California last month.
The man, Adrián Paul Aispuro, 44, claimed to be part of RFK Jr.’s security team and was carrying pistols, additional ammunition and an American. Marshal’s insignia when he was quickly arrested, authorities said.
Kennedy Jr. had been challenging President Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination before switching his party affiliation earlier this month to run for the White House as an independent candidate.
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