Biden to Award Citizens Medals to 'Insurrection' 'Heroes' at a Blatantly Anti-Trump Ceremony Friday

Brittany M. Hughes | January 5, 2023
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It's weird how “unity” is looking an awful lot like partisan virtue-signaling.

During a ceremony at the White House this Friday, President Joe Biden is scheduled to bestow the Presidential Citizens Medal to a dozen individuals, a list more than half of which is comprised of “heroes” who emerged during the supposed January 6 “insurrection” (it wasn't) and former President Donald Trump’s assault on “democracy” (it wasn't) preceding it.

Or, at least, that’s how Biden & Co. see it. Among those set to be honored with one of the nation’s highest civilian honors reserved for those who have “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens” is Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, two black female election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, who Biden is praising for standing their ground after having come under attack by Trump following the 2020 presidential race.

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Also included are former DC police Officer Michael Fanone, who testified before Congress that he was assaulted by Trump supporters during the January 6 riot (and then who went on to land a job at CNN after publicly blasting Trump and once posed with “comedienne” Kathy Griffin holding a “F*** Trump” mug) and Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who compared the three-hour melee at the Capitol to being on a battlefield during wartime.

Set to be awarded posthumously is Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died of “natural causes” on January 7 after suffering strokes, but who’s being lumped in with the “insurrection heroes” anyway.

Rusty Bowers, the Arizona House speaker who said he refused to overturn the results of the election in the face of demands from Trump, and Al Schmidt, a now-former Republican Philadelphia city commissioner who denied claims of election fraud, will also get the Citizens Medal.

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