President Joe Biden took a wave of backlash after it was announced on Thursday that he planned to honor Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and former Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-honor-liz-cheney-three-weeks-before-trumps-inauguration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liz Cheney</a> (R-WY) with the Presidential Citizens Medal before he leaves office.
&#8220;Throughout two decades in public service, including as a congresswoman for Wyoming and vice chair of the committee on the Jan. 6 attack, Liz Cheney has raised her voice — and reached across the aisle — to defend our nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency,” the White House said of the former Wyoming congresswoman, who was routed in the 2022 Republican primary after she voluntarily joined the lopsided January 6th Committee. &#8220;Her integrity and intrepidness remind us all what is possible if we work together.&#8221;
Biden also plans to award <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/us/politics/presidential-citizens-medal-liz-cheney.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Thompson</a>, who chaired the January 6th Committee, along with 18 others.
Critics weren&#8217;t so sure that the award was the honor President Biden appeared to believe it was, however, arguing that it was &#8220;meaningless&#8221; or essentially a &#8220;participation trophy.&#8221;
&#8220;President Biden rewards Liz Cheney for her witness tampering and obstruction of justice in the J6 show trial she ran. Discrediting to everyone,&#8221; The Federalist&#8217;s Mollie Hemingway posted.
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President Biden rewards Liz Cheney for her witness tampering and obstruction of justice in the J6 show trial she ran. Discrediting to everyone. <a href="https://t.co/JGjO3feHgA">https://t.co/JGjO3feHgA</a>
&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1874848475990647037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Cheney receives a participation trophy from Biden for leading a political witchhunt against President Trump and allegedly tampering with evidence,&#8221; former White House advisor Mercedes Schlapp added.
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Cheney receives a participation trophy from Biden for leading a political witchhunt against President Trump and allegedly tampering with evidence. <a href="https://t.co/XTed4sT7Uz">https://t.co/XTed4sT7Uz</a>
&mdash; Mercedes Schlapp (@mercedesschlapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/mercedesschlapp/status/1874802655580893614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I never understood why people would turn down high honors and accolades. Now I do,&#8221; author John LeFevre posted. &#8220;Sadiq Khan is getting a Knighthood. Liz Cheney is getting the Presidential Citizens Medal. These awards are not only meaningless, they are a trophy for complicity in a rotten system.&#8221;
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I never understood why people would turn down high honors and accolades. 
Now I do&#8230;
Sadiq Khan is getting a Knighthood. Liz Cheney is getting the Presidential Citizens Medal.
These awards are not only meaningless, they are a trophy for complicity in a rotten system.
&mdash; John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnLeFevre/status/1874841752135487999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;This is repulsive. That investigation was done by a committee all of whose members were chosen by Nancy Pelosi, and was produced like a TV show. There was no cross examination of witnesses. The media fell for it, but it was utterly one-sided. A show trial,&#8221; Fox News&#8217; Brit Hume said.
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This is repulsive. That investigation was done by a committee all of whose members were chosen by Nancy Pelosi, and was produced like a TV show. There was no cross examination of witnesses. The media fell for it, but it was utterly one-sided. A show trial. <a href="https://t.co/9LSmr8rGCU">https://t.co/9LSmr8rGCU</a>
&mdash; Brit Hume (@brithume) <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1874851068506783936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Just a reminder that Liz Cheney lost her seat in the House of Representatives because her very own constituents loathed her for the role she played in trying to take down Donald Trump,&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s Mary Margaret Olohan noted.
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Just a reminder that Liz Cheney lost her seat in the House of Representatives because her very own constituents loathed her for the role she played in trying to take down Donald Trump. <a href="https://t.co/LOgqa2991l">pic.twitter.com/LOgqa2991l</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1874849308962676747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;It’s mostly funny because Joe Biden has been considering giving Liz Cheney a blanket pardon. But now she’s getting a Presidential Award? Truly beyond parody,&#8221; Dustin Grage added.
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It’s mostly funny because Joe Biden has been considering giving Liz Cheney a blanket pardon.
But now she’s getting a Presidential Award? Truly beyond parody. <a href="https://t.co/kDfdXZaYmR">https://t.co/kDfdXZaYmR</a>
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href="https://twitter.com/GrageDustin/status/1874862484148105310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
Cheney had been on a short list of potential &#8220;pre-emptive pardons&#8221; that were reportedly the subject of discussion in the White House, with the stated goal being to insulate her from prosecution that could stem from her role in the January 6th Committee&#8217;s investigation. Cheney&#8217;s name was floated along with a number of other antagonists of President-elect Donald Trump — such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) — as Democrats and their legacy media surrogates stirred fears that Trump might seek retribution once he took office again in January.
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