SHOCK: Who Wants To Kill Dr. Ben Carson?

The death threats to Dr. Ben Carson have been “off the charts,” according to Secret Service officials, who will begin providing him protection, along with Donald Trump.

The amazing revelation, first reported by NewsMax, comes after Donald Trump wondered aloud why he wasn’t receiving Secret Service protection, jokingly saying they “didn’t give a shit” about him because he was a Republican. Both men have been at the top of the polls for several weeks.

Hillary Clinton has been receiving Secret Service protection continuously since her days as First Lady.

The threats to Carson have been “off the charts,” an unnamed agency source said, including death threats and “terrorist chatter.”

The Carson campaign wouldn’t comment. Armstrong Williams, who serves as the campaign’s business manager, told NewsMax he could “neither confirm nor deny” either the Secret Service protection or the threats, but the site said the protection detail, along with the FBI have become “increasingly alarmed” in recent weeks, believing that Carson “faced serious danger.”

Carson resisted Secret Service protection at first, but when presented with the threats, he relented. About two dozen agents will be assigned to each candidate.

Interestingly, the source also said that ISIS “would like to strike a major political target in the U.S.,” and Carson has said that a Muslim should not be president.

“I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that,” Carson said.

Unlike Carson, Trump specifically asked the Secret Service for protection and there have been direct threats on his life. The drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman posted a $100 million bounty on Trump’s head.

But there have been no confirmed reports of threats to Carson. So, other than ISIS, who on earth might like to see the “removal” of an intelligent, black, conservative Christian candidate?

The Southern Poverty Law Center listed Carson on their “extremist watch list,” essentially branding him a racist terrorist. They’ve since taken down the report, but on at least one occasion, a leftist terrorist has attacked a group listed on the group’s website.