Joe Biden Presents Award To Liz Cheney

Joe Biden awarded 20 individuals the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the country’s highest civilian honors.

The recipients included key members of the House Jan. 6 committee.

Biden awarded the medal to former Congresswoman Liz Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS).

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JUST IN: Joe Biden just awarded Liz Cheney, who LIED and tampered with “witnesses” in the J6 committee, the Presidential Citizens Medal

Absolutely disgusting. Who wants to bet she’ll get a pardon next?

This medal is SUPPOSED to be for those who perform “exemplary deeds for… pic.twitter.com/QMNCFnnnrW

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 2, 2025

Per ABC News:

The White House said Cheney, who has repeatedly endured attacks from President-elect Donald Trump and his allies, “put the American people over party.”

Biden did not specifically mention Cheney during his remarks at the White House event. However, he praised the elected officials who received the medal for serving “in difficult times with honor, decency and ensured our democracy delivers.”

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“Together, you embody, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, the essential truth: We’re a great nation. We’re a great nation because we’re a good people,” he said.

Biden also honored other former lawmakers, including Carolyn McCarthy, Bill Bradley, Nancy Landon Kassebaum and Ted Kaufman, among others.

“This is truly unbelievable. Liz Cheney tampered with a witness. Outside of DC, that doesn’t get you a medal; it gets you jail time,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) commented.

This is truly unbelievable. Liz Cheney tampered with a witness. Outside of DC, that doesn’t get you a medal; it gets you jail time. https://t.co/ml6qXVHdMj

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 2, 2025

Having “Joe Biden”, as one of his last acts, bestow a presidential medal on Liz Cheney says so much about the value system of the Democratic Party.

But what “Biden” said about Cheney — an advocate still of countless views liberals denounce` as fascist — is even more telling: pic.twitter.com/5ILNYS6apj

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 2, 2025

From the Associated Press:

Cheney, who lost her seat in the GOP primary in August 2022, later said she would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race and campaigned with the Democratic nominee, raising Trump’s ire. Biden has been considering whether to offer preemptive pardons to Cheney and others Trump has targeted.

Thompson, who also received a standing ovation, was recognized “for his lifelong dedication to safeguarding our Constitution.”

Trump, who won the 2024 election and will take office Jan. 20, still refuses to back away from his lies about the 2020 presidential race and has said he would pardon the rioters once he is back in the White House.

During an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the president-elect said that “Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” claiming without evidence they “deleted and destroyed” testimony they collected.

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“Honestly, they should go to jail,” he said.

Cheney and Thompson were “an embarrassment to this country” for their conduct on the committee, Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung asserted.

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