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Joe Biden decorates Liz Cheney at the White House, Thursday January 2, 2025
UNITED STATES – He intends to enjoy his last days. Three weeks before the transfer of power with Donald Trump, Joe Biden decorated former Republican elected official Liz Cheney this Thursday, January 2, at the White House.
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who vice-chaired a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, is a fierce critic of Donald Trump. Who had even warned that she could have “big problems” with justice once he takes office.
The outgoing Democratic president awarded a total of 20 personalities the “Presidential Medal of Citizenship”. Also including the president of the said commission, the elected Democrat from Mississippi Bennie Thompson. Joe Biden greeted the “elected officials who, in difficult times, have acted with honor and righteousness to ensure that our democracy keeps its promises”. Both received a standing ovation when they took to a stage.
Regarding Liz Cheney, the White House emphasized in a press release that it had “transcended partisan divisions in order to defend the ideals of our nation.” Liz Cheney has for several years become the voice of anti-Trump within the Republican camp, and one of the most hated personalities in the Trumpist camp.
The former elected official from Wyoming (northwest) campaigned alongside Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate defeated by Donald Trump in November. The Republican, who will be sworn in on January 20, has threatened prosecution against those he perceives as his enemies, whether politicians or journalists.
He also promised to release those convicted and imprisoned for their participation in the attack on the headquarters of the US Congress, at a time when parliamentarians were preparing to confirm the election of Joe Biden.
The latter, humiliated by the upcoming return to power of his great rival, unpopular and weakened by age, is stepping up measures intended either to consolidate his record or to establish the strongest possible contrast with Donald Trump.
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