On Biden's Presidential Medal of Freedom Awards

by Lawrence Kadish • January 9, 2025 at 4:00 pm

Unfortunately, what President Joe Biden has done in the final days of his single term is to turn a most prestigious national award into a gratuitous partisan medal of loyalty. Pictured: Hillary Clinton receives the Medal of Freedom from Biden at the White House, on January 4, 2025. (Photo by Chris Kleponi/AFP via Getty Images)

A recent decision by the outgoing 46^th President of the United States to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to 19 Americans for what the White House describes as "good people who have made extraordinary contributions to their country and the world".

Unfortunately, what President Joe Biden has done in the final days of his single term is to turn a most prestigious national award into a gratuitous partisan medal of loyalty. Consider:

Biden presented the award to George Soros, a longtime Democratic Party donor and sponsor of district attorneys who appear to aid and abet criminal behavior by refusing to prosecute it rather than protecting law-abiding citizens. Soros also wrote, "The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States." (The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror, 2006, p.16)

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