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(NewsNation) — Former President Donald Trump is calling for autarkic statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to get Secret Service extortion pursuing the assassination attempt astatine a Trump rally successful Pennsylvania.
"In airy of what is going connected successful the satellite today, I judge it is imperative that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. person Secret Service extortion — immediately. Given the past of the Kennedy Family, this is the evident close happening to do!" Trump posted Monday connected Truth Social.
Kennedy, who is moving for president against Trump and President Joe Biden, said past twelvemonth his petition for Secret Service protection had been denied.
Kennedy joined “NewsNation Prime” conscionable hours aft gunshots forced Trump to evacuate the stage at a fairground successful Butler, Pennsylvania. A rally attendee died. He called for bid pursuing the shooting, telling NewsNation that Saturday’s incidental is the “product of truthful overmuch vitriol and truthful overmuch anger.”
Early Sunday morning, the FBI said the attempted assassin was Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, immoderate 60 miles from the determination of the rally.
The assassination effort hits adjacent to location for Kennedy, who is the lad of former U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was assassinated successful 1968, and the nephew of erstwhile President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated successful 1963.
It’s a uncommon occurrence. The last assassination effort connected a president was successful 1981 erstwhile a gunman changeable then-President Ronald Raegan.
“I recognize the implications that this has for our state astir apt arsenic good arsenic anybody does … I’m definite (his household is) terrified for his safety,” Kennedy said.
NewsNation's Anna Kutz contributed to this report.
