With 16 days left in a political profession that spanned a half-century, President Biden on Saturday conferred one of many nation’s highest honors on core members of the political, monetary and celeb institution of which he has lengthy been a component.
President-elect Donald J. Trump will substitute Mr. Biden on Jan. 20, decided to proceed his assault on what he has lengthy referred to as “the swamp.” In 2016, Mr. Trump vowed to wage warfare in opposition to institution members in each events who he mentioned had “reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.”
However on Saturday, Mr. Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 18 folks, together with a number of the brightest lights of the previous guard that Mr. Trump needs to tear down. In doing so, the 82-year-old president is sending an unmistakable message of assist for a democratic order he has mentioned is threatened by Mr. Trump’s re-election.
“Let’s remember, our sacred effort continues, and to keep going, as my mother would say, we have to keep the faith,” he advised the group within the East Room of the White Home on the finish of the ceremony.
Amongst these receiving the award have been Hillary Clinton, the previous first woman, senator and secretary of state whom Mr. Trump threatened to jail and who acquired a standing ovation on Saturday; Robert F. Kennedy, the assassinated senator whose son has embraced Mr. Trump; and George Romney, the late father of former Senator Mitt Romney, the Republican from Utah who repeatedly rejected Mr. Trump’s actions and philosophy. The youthful Mr. Romney accepted the award on Saturday. Mr. Kennedy’s medal was accepted by his daughter, Kerry Kennedy.
As many presidents have completed with the Medal of Freedom, Mr. Biden additionally honored a few of his get together’s most prolific fund-raisers, together with the person who looms largest of all amongst Democratic donors — George Soros, the liberal activist billionaire whom Republicans have solid because the get together’s evil puppet grasp.
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