Biden Will Award Liz Cheney With This Medal

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-02 16:42:12 | Updated at 2025-01-05 00:32:46 2 days ago

Biden Will Award Liz Cheney With This Medal
Townhall ^ | 01/02/2024 | Madeline Leesman

Posted on 01/02/2025 8:35:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind

President Joe Biden will award former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney and 19 others with the Presidential Citizens Medal. Biden leaves office later this month.

The Presidential Citizens Medal is awarded to individuals who display "Exemplary deeds or services, for his or her country or fellow citizens." It is the second-highest civilian award in the United States, second to the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

According to The Washington Post, Cheney’s anti-Donald Trump stance is what contributed to Biden giving her the medal (via the Post):

Biden will bestow the honor on Cheney — one of the GOP’s most outspoken critics of President-elect Donald Trump, who joined Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on the campaign trail last year in a bipartisan push to defeat him — less than three weeks before Trump is inaugurated.

Cheney served as vice chair of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, and in October, she urged Americans to reject his “depraved cruelty” as she rallied alongside Harris. A majority of voters were not persuaded by that argument.

As Townhall covered, Cheney endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. She spoke on it at Duke University.

“Because we are here in North Carolina, I think it is crucially important for people to recognize … that Trump poses something that should prevent people from voting for him, but I don’t believe we have the luxury of writing in candidates' names — particularly in swing states,” she said in remarks at a Duke University event titled “Defending Democracy.”

“As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump but I will be voting for Kamala Harris,” she added.

Cheney then campaigned for Harris.

This is a far cry from how Cheney felt about Harris in the past.

In a post on X, Cheney once said that Harris “wants to recreate America in the image of what’s happening on the streets of Portland & Seattle.”

“We won’t give her a chance,” she added.

Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns & health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal gov’t. She wants to recreate America in the image of what’s happening on the streets of Portland & Seattle. We won’t give her the chance.— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) August 11, 2020

TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: citizenship; lizcheney; medal

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1 posted on 01/02/2025 8:35:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind

To: SeekAndFind

He sure is being a “decent” old demented hateful man doing this to spite Trump.

2 posted on 01/02/2025 8:36:49 AM PST by 1Old Pro

To: SeekAndFind

Just when you thought there were no more stupid things left that Biden hasn’t already done.

3 posted on 01/02/2025 8:38:38 AM PST by econjack

To: SeekAndFind

Can Trump revoke this? That would be delicious!

4 posted on 01/02/2025 8:39:05 AM PST by woweeitsme

To: SeekAndFind

5 posted on 01/02/2025 8:40:33 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)

To: 1Old Pro

A big FU to most of the country. Biden is a spiteful, vindictive scumbag and he always has been. He deserves any misery that comes his way.

6 posted on 01/02/2025 8:40:59 AM PST by iamgalt

To: SeekAndFind

As soon as Trump takes office he should abolish the medal and reinstitute it with a different name, since it has been so tarnished.

7 posted on 01/02/2025 8:41:01 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)

To: SeekAndFind

8 posted on 01/02/2025 8:41:03 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)

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