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Biden to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Gabby Giffords, Simone Biles, John McCain, Denzel Washington, Megan Rapinoe among others
NBC News via MSN ^ | 07/01/2022 | Rebecca Shabad

Posted on 07/01/2022 11:12:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

President Joe Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 people, including former Rep. Gabby Giffords, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and U.S. soccer player Megan Rapinoe, the White House announced Friday.

Biden will present the medals at a White House event on July 7. The medals, the country’s highest civilian honor, are awarded at the discretion of the president to people who have made a significant cultural impact or great contributions to the country or world.

Biden will also awards medals to actor Denzel Washington; Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen Muslim U.S. Army captain; and Sandra Lindsay, a New York nurse who was among the first in the country to receive the Covid vaccine.

Three other recipients will be awarded the medal posthumously: the late Sen. John McCain, who served in the Senate and House for decades and became the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2008; Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, Inc.; and Richard Trumka, who served as president of the AFL-CIO.

Giffords, who served as a congresswoman from Arizona, was shot in at a constituent event in her state in 2011. She survived and became a major advocate on gun violence prevention efforts. Biles is the most decorated gymnast in American history, with 32 Olympic and World Championship medals, and Rapinoe is an Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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1 posted on 07/01/2022 11:12:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Biles is the most decorated gymnast in American history, with 32 Olympic and World Championship medals,

And notorious quitter...

2 posted on 07/01/2022 11:14:24 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, at least he got a couple of them right. Nothing for Scalise?


3 posted on 07/01/2022 11:14:34 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: frogjerk

And Rapipoe who has said repeatedly that she hates America


4 posted on 07/01/2022 11:15:22 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SeekAndFind

Medal of Freedom now reduced to Crackerjack box prize status.


5 posted on 07/01/2022 11:16:15 AM PDT by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: SeekAndFind

Giffords is a big supporter of Rats’n’Rinos, and opposes the freedoms that the 2nd Amendment guarantees.

So yes, of course she gets a medal.


6 posted on 07/01/2022 11:17:56 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (We are living in 1984. We have always been living in 1984.)
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To: SeekAndFind

🤣 Making meaningless awards ever more meaningless. What a (p)resident eh?


7 posted on 07/01/2022 11:17:57 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Fresh Wind

Hey now. She and markelly giffords constantly remind us they support the 2nd amendment. Just not for peons. You know, everyday, law abiding citizens.


8 posted on 07/01/2022 11:19:33 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Noumenon

“Medal of Freedom now reduced to Crackerjack box prize status.”

I was thinking the same thing. Similar to CA drivers licenses and voter registeation-like candy.


9 posted on 07/01/2022 11:20:01 AM PDT by chuckb87
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To: SeekAndFind

Very glad that Trump awarded Rush his while he was still alive.


10 posted on 07/01/2022 11:20:21 AM PDT by AU72
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To: SeekAndFind

Megan Rapinoe deserves a HUGE booby prize—NOT a “medal of freedom”!!!!

She is the epitome of “filthy and disgusting”!!!!


11 posted on 07/01/2022 11:21:39 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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I have concluded with certainty that this black-hearted American-Hating, racist administration is bent on tearing down every institutional vestige of history, morality, prosperity, and respect this country has built and garnered in its history.

I believe they know their time is short, and are accelerating their efforts to inflict as much damage and make as much of it so impossible to repair, as to render it permanent.

I cannot say aloud what I think should happen to those vile people.


12 posted on 07/01/2022 11:22:05 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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"Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen Muslim U.S. Army captain"

Other than speaking out against President Trump, exactly what has this guy done to deserve this medal?? Will the parents of the 13 soldiers assassinated last year as a result of Biden's Afgahn surrender also be receiving the Medal of Freedom????
13 posted on 07/01/2022 11:23:55 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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I quit buying Subways because of this US-hating phony and stupid wants to give her a medal??


14 posted on 07/01/2022 11:26:04 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: SeekAndFind

not bowe bergdahl? maybe obama gave him one.


15 posted on 07/01/2022 11:27:15 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Hot fun in the summertime! thanks rjo.)
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To: SeekAndFind

A group out of the cantina scene in Star Wars...


16 posted on 07/01/2022 11:27:21 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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Oh boy...this will no doubt trigger the Babylon Bee into a great take-off.


17 posted on 07/01/2022 11:27:36 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: econjack

Maybe she should go to Russia.


18 posted on 07/01/2022 11:32:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rlmorel

You sound exactly like me.”Kudos”!


19 posted on 07/01/2022 11:33:14 AM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: SeekAndFind

I fully expected to see Jussie Smollett on the list.


20 posted on 07/01/2022 11:33:46 AM PDT by fullchroma
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