Biden Disgraces the Medal of Freedom

Apparently not satisfied with pardoning his son in one of the most blatantly corrupt moves ever from a sitting president, Joe Biden on Saturday continued to make a mockery of his office by bestowing the Medal of Freedom – the nation’s highest civilian honor – on Hillary Clinton and George Soros.

Clinton and Soros were among 19 honorees who received the award, but those two garnered by far the most attention because both plainly represent the precise opposite of everything the medal stands for. According to President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 executive order establishing the medal, recipients should be individuals who have “made an especially meritorious contribution to (1) the security or national interests of the United States, or (2) world peace, or (3) cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

Some previous noteworthy recipients of the medal include Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Ronald Reagan, Walt Disney, Bob Dylan, Michael Jordan, Pope John Paul II, and Neil Armstrong. Now, Clinton and Soros have joined their ranks.

Presidential decisions about who receives the medal have often been controversial, more so in recent years as the award (along with seemingly everything else) has become more politicized. Barack Obama’s decision to present Joe Biden – then his vice president – with the medal in 2017 just before leaving office was particularly contentious. But never before has the medal been awarded to two individuals whose careers and actions have been so directly harmful to the United States.

Clinton, a White House press release said, was honored for having “made history many times over decades in public service, including as the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate.”

Clinton has indeed made history but for all the wrong reasons. As Secretary of State, Clinton oversaw the infamous debacle in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, with questions still lingering about her knowledge of the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya and her failure to stop it. She also used a private email server for official communications while Secretary of State, with the FBI concluding that she was “extremely careless” with classified information.

In both of these cases, Clinton’s actions directly undermined “the security or national interests of the United States” and endangered the lives of U.S. service members and civil servants.

Then there was the Russiagate hoax of 2016. While the Biden White House celebrates Clinton as the first female presidential nominee for a major party, it fails to mention her campaign’s role in conspiring with the intelligence community to manufacture a narrative that Donald Trump was somehow a Russian agent – thereby intentionally misleading the American people and threatening to undermine the democratic process. So much for an “especially meritorious contribution to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

As shameful as giving the medal to Clinton is, bestowing it on Soros is perhaps even worse. For at least the last decade, Soros has been engaged in a crusade to “remake” America and the entire Western world – and not for the better. Every crisis the United States faces today is a direct result of policies that Soros supports.

Soros’s most infamous scheme has been a years-long effort to install far-left prosecutors in major cities throughout the United States. Those prosecutors have then flatly refused to prosecute entire categories of crime while working to eliminate cash bail and institute any other policy that would see violent criminals released back onto the streets en masse. The result has been untold chaos and suffering as the country’s urban centers have been overrun with drugs and crime.

“In my opinion, he fundamentally hates humanity,” Elon Musk once said of Soros on The Joe Rogan Experience. “He’s doing things that erode the fabric of civilization.” As National Review reported, Soros, who is of Jewish heritage, has also “supported groups that lead school walkouts ‘for Gaza,’ organize ‘All out for Palestine’ protests in cities, and profess support for Hamas.” Additionally, the Soros-backed group Arab Resource and Organizing Center “tried to blockade a U.S. military ship headed for Israel last year.”

During the Biden administration, Soros-linked groups have also directly facilitated the entry of illegal aliens into the United States, effectively funding the border crisis that has destabilized American society and threatened American national security. Biden officials were in constant contact with Soros activists as they allowed millions of unvetted migrants to flood into the country.

In total, Soros-linked groups have donated some $32 billion to left-wing candidates and causes over the years – perhaps the real reason Biden decided Soros deserved the award. After all, Biden has repeatedly proven that his top priority in public office is ensuring his friends and family get paid.

In two weeks, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president, and Joe Biden will no longer have the power to disgrace the highest office in the land. But repairing the damage Biden has done will be one of Trump’s most important tasks over the next four years.

Shane Harris is a writer and political consultant from Southwest Ohio. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.