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Joe Biden awards Liz Cheney presidential medal
The former Republican congresswoman was on the committee that investigated the attack on the US Capitol in 2021 and has been threatened by Donald Trump with jail
www.thetimes.com
President Biden honoured Liz Cheney with a “citizens medal” on Thursday, in a move likely to irk many of her old colleagues in the Republican Party.
Cheney, a former congresswoman from Wyoming, rallied alongside the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, and called Donald Trump a “petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant”.
Trump has threatened to imprison her for her role on the congressional committee that investigated the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, when his supporters stormed the building to try to prevent the certification of Biden as president.
Biden bestowed Cheney and 19 others with the medal, one of the highest civilian honours given to American citizens “who have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens”.
“President Biden believes these Americans are bonded by their common decency and commitment to serving others,” the White House said. “The country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice.”
Cheney, 58, was a Republican member of the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023, and served as vice-chairwoman of the select committee that investigated the January 6 attacks. Its report found that it was an insurrection and attack on democracy, and accused Trump of being criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy”.
Trump has praised the incarcerated rioters as “patriots” and “political prisoners”, and has promised to pardon some of them when he is inaugurated on January 20.
Cheney backed Kamala Harris when she ran for the presidency
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Biden also honoured Bennie Thompson, a Democratic congressman from Mississippi who served as the chairman of the January 6 committee.
Trump has accused Cheney, Thompson and other committee members of destroying evidence linked to January 6, despite no evidence of this.
Given concerns that Trump will try to pursue his political enemies when he takes office, Biden is reported to be considering a pre-emptive pardon for Cheney, the daughter of the former Republican vice-president Dick Cheney.
Other people honoured on Thursday included the lawyer Mary Bonauto, who fought to legalise same-sex marriage, the lawyer and activist Evan Wolfson, a leader of the marriage-equality movement, and Diane Carlson Evans, an army nurse during the Vietnam war who founded the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation.
