With Nunes honor, Trump treats Medal of Freedom like a party favor

[Marcuse]

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Source: MSNBC

The White House's written statement explaining why Nunes is receiving the nation's highest civilian honor is unintentionally amusing: it argues that the Republican congressman earned the medal because he uncovered evidence of the Obama administration spying on the Trump campaign (that didn't happen in reality), found proof of "illegitimate" unmaskings (that also didn't happen in reality), "thwarted" a plot to take down an American president (this is utterly bananas), proved something nefarious about the "persecution" of disgraced former White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (who wasn't persecuted), "pursued" the "Russia Hoax" (which obviously wasn't a hoax), and "uncovered the greatest scandal in American history," which the document didn't actually identify.

Perhaps most importantly, the president's statement added that Nunes deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom because the Republican lawmaker "had the fortitude to take on the media, the FBI, the Intelligence Community, the Democrat Party, foreign spies, and the full power of the Deep State."

Or put another way, Trump is celebrating Nunes for "taking on" his own country's governmental institutions that Trump ostensibly helps lead.

Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/nunes-honor-trump-treats-medal-freedom-party-favor-n1252776

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[onecaliberal]

1. Kills every single thing he touches. N/T

[LSFL]

2. And Dolly Parton gets Jack shit.

Sounds about white.....I mean right.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Political swag . . . . .

[regnaD kciN]

4. As if he hadn't already done that with Limbaugh...

[underpants]

5. That pic is too funny

[dchill]

6. "...a party favor" for the guy who put the turd in the punchbowl.

[central scrutinizer]

8. Participation trophy

It’s going to be like T-ball. Every sycophant will get one.

[Deuxcents]

9. Yes..everything he touches

Turns to Shit or bankruptcy . I like the ideals of the Freedom Medal but he has destroyed that, too. All the people before, who have been honored, must have something to say, too. Even an * beside everything just doesn’t rid him from his hateful n vengeful 4 years of d destruction. How can restore the honor of this recognition?

[JohnnyRingo]

10. This should go to the Smithsonian.

Or maybe the Ripleys Believe It Or Not Museum.

With a plaque describing the reason he "earned" it, because never in history has the medal been awarded so flippantly and without merit. It no longer matter who gets the Medal Of Freedom. They just hand them out like Dairy Queen coupons to a losing Little League team.

[halfulglas]

11. I have a different opinion. Not a favor.

Trump is doing this to deliberately debase this honor, especially since Obama awarded it to Joe Biden. This is the highest honor America has to give to a civilian and look at the people he has given it to already. Everyone who has already received it from Trump and the ones in the coming weeks, their names will probably be marked by an asterisk in historical records as awarded by a criminal president, but in his mind right now, this is to show Obama, Biden and the rest of the country that it was something he gave to people who not just left him walk all over them, but helped him crap all over the constitution.

[riversedge]

12. eeks. wish I could erase that image from my mind.

[George II]

13. The proclamation might as well have been printed on toilet paper.

[Maine-i-acs]

14. Slight correction: With Rush Limbaugh it was a like party favor;

with Nunes it was like cash on the dresser.

[scarletwoman]

15. Right on!

[thenelm1]

17. Or in Nunes' case, more like a reach around - I suppose that same could be said for Limbaugh too.

[Marcuse]

18. In lieu of cash

[thenelm1]

16. Put an end to the medal, and maybe....

re-establish with a different name, preferably with Congressional approval required. None of the unilateral award by the pres to his ass kissing friends BS.

[olddad65]

19. If I were a person who has been awarded this medal of freedom, I would send it back to Washington

And tell trump to stick it up his ass.

[Zorro]

20. Apparently the ceremony was private

No media allowed.

[Omaha Steve]

21. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

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