President Joe Biden’s awarding of the former First Lady and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and billionaire political activist and philanthropist George Soros with the Presidential Medal of Freedom has created a significant outrage. The Medal is America’s highest civilian honor “presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors,” a White House communique read.
As President Biden gets ready to leave office, it is evident that he will go down as one of the most unpopular presidents in history. Beyond his diminished physical and mental acuity, Biden’s handling of the economy, wars in Europe and the Middle East, and his pandering to radical progressives’ woke social agenda were among some of the causes for Democrat’s comprehensive defeat in the recently concluded elections that gave the GOP a rare trifecta–the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate.
Biden’s popularity took a nosedive after his chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, just a few months after he took office. Pardoning his recovering crack addict son Hunter, convicted of three firearm crimes, took Biden to a new low. What hurt Biden’s credibility most is that he granted his son an unprecedented, sweeping pardon despite repeatedly saying he wouldn’t do so for months. Biden raised even more eyebrows when he commuted sentences of around 15000 people and pardoned 39 others. Biden’s clemency was the largest ever issued by a president in a day.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom to Clinton and Soros has received a considerable backland. Clinton and her presidential campaign cooked up one of the biggest hoaxes in U.S. politics–the Russiagate hoax. The conspiracy theory that the Clinton campaign developed and the compliant U.S. media fanned was, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glen Greenwald, “that the Kremlin had infiltrated the US and was clandestinely controlling the levers of American power through some combination of sexual and financial blackmail.”
As the 2016 presidential primaries in the U.S. were slowly heating up, a politically light-weight candidate, Donald Trump, entered the race on June 16, 2015. Trump’s eventual rival in the final phases of the battle for America’s top job, Democrat Hilary Clinton, had announced her candidacy three days prior.
No one took Trump’s candidacy seriously. At least not initially. As Trump’s candidacy started to appear more formidable, Clinton had to update her strategy. She approved a proposal from one of her foreign-policy advisers to vilify Trump, claiming there was interference in the U.S. election process by Russian security services.
The Clinton campaign posted a link to a “bombshell report” on Yahoo on Twitter, now X. The campaign had secretly paid the researchers to pitch the story to Yahoo News’s investigative correspondent, Michael Isikoff. On January 30, 2023, The Columbia Journal Review (CJR) published a four-part report by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jeff Gerth on the now-debunked Russiagate narrative. “In essence,” Gerth writes, “the [Hilary Clinton] campaign was boosting, through the press, a storyline it had itself engineered.”
Clinton stirred up controversy when she used a private email server for official communication as the Secretary of State under President Barack Obama. Michael B Mukasey, a former U.S. Attorney General under President George W Bush, wrote for the Wall Street Journal that regardless of Mrs. Clinton’s intent, her conduct “justifies a criminal charge of one sort or another.”
Clinton also came under severe criticism for her handling of the Benghazi attacks. The coordinated terrorist attacks on U.S. establishments in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, among others.
While in choosing Clinton as the Medal recipient, the President may be proving his loyalty to one of the Democrat Party’s icons, in selecting the 94-year-old Soros, Biden was rewarding one of the mega-donors to his presidential campaign as well as progressive liberal causes championed by the Democrats.
George Soros, born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1930, is a “detached and mysterious currency speculator” who, according to Time magazine, “made billions by moving markets in a manner that made him a whipping boy for besieged bankers and ministers” and earned him the title of “the Man Who Broke the Bank of England.”
Soros is one of the world’s most influential and controversial philanthropists. A mega-donor for the so-called “progressive” leftwing causes, Soros funds political campaigns across the globe through his foundations. In the first quarter of 2024, Fund for Policy Reform, a non-profit founded and funded by Soros, donated $60 million to a liberal Super PAC, Democracy PAC, that backed the Democratic Party candidates during the 2024 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.
Soros is accused of funding law enforcement agents, such as District Attorneys, who refuse to prosecute crimes. Soros has donated tens of millions of dollars to organizations that oppose America’s war on drugs. He has funded candidates and ballot measures that support prescribing illegal drugs, including Marijana. “He’s the Daddy Warbucks of drug legalization,” Joseph Califano, former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and currently president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, is quoted in the Time article referenced above.
Soros is frequently accused of influencing regime change in other countries through his web of philanthropic organizations. For instance, his Open Society Foundation has been operating in India since 1999. Indians have accused Soros of destabilizing India. His opposition to what he calls “nationalist” and populist governments is well known, and his actions have significantly impacted these countries.
At the Munich Security Conference in 2023, Soros commented about India linking Prime Minister Modi and India’s business tycoon Gautam Adadani, claiming Adani’s troubles would “significantly weaken Modi’s stranglehold on India’s federal government.” Those comments made India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. S Jaishankar, call Soros an “old, rich, opinionated, and dangerous” person.
After the elections, the lame-duck Biden has made several controversial decisions. Whether or not Biden is done with dabbling in more contentious decisions, he has already sullied his presidency with these divisive and questionable actions.
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