BREAKING UPDATE: Biden agrees to provide Secret Service protection to RFK Jr. just hours after Trump demands it

The presumptive GOP nominee posted on Truth Social, "In light of what is going on in the world today, I believe it is imperative that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. receive Secret Service protection - immediately."

"Given the history of the Kennedy Family, this is the obvious right thing to do!" Trump added. RFK Jr. has been denied Secret Service protection by the Biden administration repeatedly.

A few hours later, Mayorkas announced, "The President has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy Jr."

In an email recently obtained by Newsweek, former House member and cousin to RFK Jr., Patrick Kennedy, said to DNS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, "As a family member of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as a former member of Congress, and as a member of the public, I struggle to understand the administration's persistent refusal to grant Secret Service protection to a presidential candidate deemed by the Secret Service itself to be at elevated risk.”

The outlet reported that RFK Jr. has been threatened or been the subject of bizarre rants in 34 instances. Leading in the days before the attempted assassination on Trump, RFK Jr. has repeatedly called for the administration to provide him Secret Service protection, pointing out a DHS rule that says candidates are allowed the security "as identified by the DHS Secretary, within 120 days of the general Presidential election."

"Every time my application for Secret Service protection has been denied, apologists for the DHS said it was because protection isn’t guaranteed until 120 days before the election," he said July 8.

"That actually isn’t true – many candidates got it a year or more in advance. Anyway, the election is now 120 days away. Still no Secret Service. What is their excuse now?"