By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2025-01-06 21:58:35 | Updated at 2025-01-11 11:46:31
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The Issue: Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros and Hillary Clinton.
Not content with pardoning son Hunter Biden and commuting hard-won federal death sentences, President Biden has now awarded a presidential medal to George Soros (“Megadonor among Joe’s medalists,” Jan. 5).
To be fair, Soros — as a young man — demonstrated incredible courage when escaping almost certain death by the Nazis. But that was a long time ago and Soros has since emerged as a principal sponsor of virtually every far-left cause calculated to undermine our criminal-justice system.
So what is Biden’s rationale for awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Soros? I suspect that, in Biden’s muddled mind, underwriting campaigns of far-left prosecutors is a virtue.
Frankly, the Medal of Freedom, once considered a superlative honor, has become just another meaningless political and celebrity handout.
Mitchell Schwefel
Barnegat, NJ
Biden has not only devalued the US dollar, he has now devalued the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
It’s shameful to place his pals beside the likes of former recipients such as Ralph Bunche, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, T.S. Eliot, Edward R. Murrow, Jesse Owens, Norman Rockwell and countless others who contributed so much to America.
I guess he’s not in a position to offer them Cabinet spots, so he handed out these medals like the kid in class who gives out lollipops on his birthday.
Bo Madden
Jupiter, Fla.
Biden’s Medal of Freedom for Soros should be known as the “Presidential Medal of Destruction” for all the damage Soros has done to cities by helping absurd prosecutors who aided increases in crime and the losses of businesses, jobs and public safety.
And former Sen. Hillary Clinton? She deleted 33,000 emails after they were subpoenaed, then wiped her computer of evidence, impeding an investigation.
Gary Layton
Interlaken, NJ
The only thing that Soros brought to this country was death and misery by funding radical left-wing politicians and district attorneys who refused to prosecute or jail violent criminals.
Big cities across America have seen the mayhem caused by these left-wing ideologies — yet Biden awards the main architect of this misery the Medal of Freedom.
Michael Greaney
Massapequa
These medal recipients are a slap in the face to our country, coming from a bitter man who can’t find his way off the stage and is having his last presidential tantrum by honoring those who tried to take the US down with him.
This reminds me of the ridiculous former President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize — awarded for nothing. The value of all awards plummets with these kinds of selections.
Liz Muller
Barnegat, NJ
The Democrats, enraptured by a “woke” world, are still wondering why so many were propelled to the polls to vote for President-elect Donald Trump. They should look no further than Biden’s decision to award the Medal of Freedom to Soros.
Matthew Brief
Manhattan
Biden is trying hard to outdo himself in the last days before he wanders out of the White House and into presidential infamy.
Giving Liz Cheney the Presidential Citizens Medal for presiding over the Jan. 6 fiasco was absurd. Hillary Clinton getting the Medal of Freedom was even worse.
But George Soros, really? That’s a step too far.
Rick Meyer
Pinehurst, NC
Rewarding someone like Soros with a Medal of Freedom solidified the notion that Biden is mentally gone.
Putting Soros in the same group as war heroes and undeniable humanitarian leaders is an insult to each one of them.
Betty Schwartz
Livingston, NJ
Biden gave some Medals of Freedom to donors who gave him the most money. So shouldn’t Hunter Biden, who attended the ceremony, have gotten one?
Stephen Beccalori
Douglaston
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