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A Politico columnist criticized President Biden for its final selection of Medal of Freedom recipients, which included liberal figures such as Hillary Clinton and billionaire George Soros.
Politico editor-in-chief Michael Schaffer wrote that Biden’s choice of awards sends a strong signal that Democrats have “lost touch,” arguing that the award, once above politics, has now become another political battleground.
“The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civilian honor and is awarded to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant social, public or private endeavors “, he said White House said in a statement.
A Politico columnist criticized President Biden for his Medal of Freedom recipients, which included liberal figures like Hillary Clinton and billionaire George Soros. (Getty Images)
Schaffer wrote that Biden’s choices, announced Jan. 4, actually showed a cadre of award winners who failed to defeat President-elect Trump in the campaign.
“For all their cultural and humanitarian achievements, Wintour and Andrés don’t exactly sell products that ordinary Americans can afford,” Schaffer wrote. “The Republicanism of the Romney and Cheney families lost the election because it was unpopular. (This year, Cheney’s support didn’t help the Democratic candidate either.)”
Former Sen. Mitt Romney posthumously accepted a medal in the name of his late father, George Romney, who was a three-time Republican governor of Michigan.
“For some Republicans — who particularly reacted against the inclusion of George Soros, the funder of liberal causes and long-standing conservative smear campaigns — it felt like trolling,” Schaffer wrote.
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“Worse, the politics are unlikely to help Biden’s party or his legacy,” Schaffer wrote of the Presidential Medal of Freedom event. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
“Worse, the policy is unlikely to help Biden’s party or his legacy,” the columnist added.
He said that the honorees “will also feel like a last-minute political dissident of the new administration” if Biden does not rise from the political fray in Washington DC.
“It feels a little rude to skin one outgoing president for celebrating his own favorites as the curtain falls — especially since in this case the winners overcome the hurdle of having spent years in their fields,” Schaffer wrote. “Yet the overtly political sentiment marks a cheapening of the country’s highest civilian honor, which is intended to celebrate great service to America.
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Political commentators and Biden opponents used the event to attack the president, with billionaire Elon Musk becoming one of the most prominent voices to denigrate megadonor George Soros in particular.
“It’s a farce that Biden is giving Soros the Medal of Freedom,” Musk said Posted on X last week in response to news that the country’s highest civilian honor would be awarded to Soros, whose vast financial empire has bankrolled progressive politicians’ campaigns, legislation, ballot measures and initiatives.
Fox News’ Michael Dorgon and Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
