Biden to honor 12 people with Presidential Citizens Medal on two-year anniversary of January 6

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

CNN — President Joe Biden on Friday plans to mark the two-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021, insurrection by awarding for the first time in his presidency the Presidential Citizens Medal to 12 people.

The individuals include law enforcement officers who were injured defending the Capitol, a Capitol Police officer who died the day after rioters stormed the building and election workers who rejected efforts by former President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Biden is set to deliver remarks and host a ceremony at the White House honoring the dozen individuals chosen for having made “exemplary contributions to our democracy” and shown “courage and selflessness” around the events of January 6, a White House official familiar with the details told CNN.

The Presidential Citizens Medal is one of the country’s highest civilian honors, given to American citizens deemed to have “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.” Biden’s decision to distinguish Americans he sees as having protected the nation’s Capitol, its democratic institutions and elections system, is one of the major ways in which the president has sought to draw a stark contrast from his predecessor. More than half of Friday’s 12 recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medal are current and former law enforcement officers.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/politics/joe-biden-january-6-anniversary/index.html

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Congrats to these individuals!

[ancianita]

1. This should do our hearts good. What a great president.

[hibbing]

2. While the other side will celebrate the traitors n/t

[Bayard]

3. Compare and contrast

[MissMillie]

4. For the last hour I've been waiting for the RWNJs to react

They don't appear to have this yet.


If you hear multiple explosions, you'll know they got it and their heads are exploding.

[Bev54]

5. This list of people will make Trump and the republicans absolutely crazy, they include:

From 1/6 police:

Officers; Brian Sicknick, Eugene Goodman, Michael Fanone, Caroline Edwards

Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss

Rusty Bowers and Al Schmidt

[Cha]

7. TY! Wow.. People FOR OUR

Democracy!

Rusty Bowers.. AZ..

Bowers will receive the Presidential Citizens Medal from Joe Biden for his part in resisting former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The longtime Mesa Republican lawmaker is one of 12 people who will be honored during a White House ceremony Friday.

https://ktar.com/story/5404144/ex-arizona-house-speaker-rusty-bowers-to-receive-presidential-medal/

[BumRushDaShow]

8. AND our new (D) Governor Josh Shapiro just nominated Al Schmidt to be Secty of State

Shapiro to nominate Republican Schmidt, former Philly official, for secretary of state

Shapiro, a Democrat, made the post his first Cabinet selection to be publicly announced ahead of his Jan. 17 inauguration.


By MARC LEVY Associated Press via AP logo
Thursday, January 5, 2023 12:48PM


Schmidt, a Republican, is fitting in with Shapiro's theme of fashioning a bipartisan administration in politically divided Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- A former Philadelphia election official who has told of enduring death threats for defending the city's 2020 vote-counting against former President Donald Trump's lies will be nominated for the top election administration post in Pennsylvania.

Al Schmidt will be nominated to be Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro's secretary of state, the campaign said Thursday, setting him up to oversee what is expected to be a hard-fought 2024 election in the critical presidential battleground.

Shapiro, a Democrat, made the post his first Cabinet selection to be publicly announced ahead of his Jan. 17 inauguration.

Link to tweet

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https://6abc.com/josh-shapiro-al-schmidt-secretary-of-state-pennsylvania-governor/12657819/

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Al Schmidt has a proven track record of defending our democracy, protecting voting rights, and standing up to extremism – even in the face of grave threats.

I know he'll continue the hard work of preserving and strengthening our democracy as my Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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[LudwigPastorius]

6. This is nice, but...

what would honor them even more would be to have the planner(s) and instigator(s) locked away in the federal cooler.