It would be hard to pick two figures that better personified the Democratic Party’s contempt for average Americans than failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. It would be hard to think of anyone who has done more recent damage to them than billionaire financier George Soros. But President Joe Biden chose as one of his parting shots to the nation and people he serves to honor both of them with Presidential Medals of Freedom, the highest honor a civilian can be awarded by the United States government.
Soros’s selection is arguably the bigger slap in the face to Americans, especially those who live in jurisdictions where Soros funded district attorneys who refuse to prosecute most property and even violent crimes, encouraging crime waves that have pushed previously Democratic strongholds toward Republicans. In Los Angeles, for example, under Soros-funded DA George Gascon’s soft-on-crime policies, violent crimes rose 12%, robberies climbed 16%, property crimes jumped 20%, auto theft spiked 23%, and shoplifting soared 133%, according to data from the California Department of Justice.
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The Soros-Gascon crime wave was so bad that a Republican district attorney beat Gascon at the ballot box by 30 points in November in a county where more than 70% of voters voted for Biden in 2020.
The damage Soros has caused to communities goes beyond higher crime. He also bankrolled marijuana legalization groups, which helped spread the damage from the drug in 11 states, unleashing a surge of addiction, death, and mental health problems across the country.
Clinton has caused less damage to the country than Soros has, but only because President Donald Trump beat her to the White House in 2016. What Clinton lacks in policy accomplishments, she makes up for in unbridled arrogance. On her way to losing to Trump in 2016, Clinton famously called Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables” who were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.” That Biden is honoring the author of these words puts into sharp focus his utter dishonesty when he spoke of unifying the country.
Biden’s Medal of Freedom awards to Clinton on Soros come just days after he bestowed the nation’s second highest civilian honor, the Presidential Citizens Medal, to the man and woman who headed the propaganda spectacle that was the House Jan. 6 Committee, Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Liz Cheney (R-WY).
The selection of Thompson is on face ridiculous since before he chaired the Jan. 6 Committee, his only real claim to public attention was that he refused to certify President George W. Bush’s election in 2004. Whatever accomplishments Cheney may have had before her work on the Jan. 6 Committee, have since been overshadowed by her dishonest and hyperbolic work in that last role.
Cheney not only leaked completely out-of-context texts to the media for partisan reasons, but also tampered with witnesses before the committee, and oversaw the massive destruction of committee data, preventing a more thorough oversight of Jan. 6 Committee deceptions.
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President Biden’s effort to sell himself as a unifying political figure was exposed as a fraud years ago. But now, just weeks before he slithers off the public stage and becomes completely irrelevant, he seems intent on solidifying his claim to be one of the most divisive and clueless presidents ever. From the Soros, Clinton, and Cheney awards, to his selective commutation of death row inmates, there can surely never have been a more cynical and shameful finalé to a presidency. He is piling insult on top of the injury that his presidency has inflicted on America.
Rejected first by his party this June and then by country this November, Biden’s last month in office is an insult, apparently a deliberate one, to a nation Biden believes failed him. The reality is the reverse — it elected him, and then he failed us all.
This article was originally published at www.washingtonexaminer.com
