President Donald Trump is poised to award Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), one of his most diehard lackeys in Congress, the Medal of Freedom, according to the Washington Post and the New York Times.
The value of the award sort of vanished when Trump gave one out to Arthur B. Laffer. Owning the “elites”, in this case educated economists, is a subset of owning the libs, a very counter-elite move. And why not Devin’s valet Kash Patel? He did a lot of the heavy conspiracy lifting for Devin a couple years ago.
Trump seems to want all of his people have Medals pinned on their chests like Idi Amin.
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If Trump Inc were to overthrow our votes and make Trump President, what form of government were they going to install?
Definitely there should be protestors out in the street during the medals ceremony. Can anyone get ahold of some parade-sized cow balloons? Cows wrestling comes to mind.
Was this a consolation prize for Nunes? Did he really want/expect/hope for a pardon from President Trump to protect himself from any Russia investigation or his other legal woes? As far as I can remember, most if not all of his defamation law suits against others have been tossed by the courts. The question I have centers on his involvement as a member of the House Committee on Intelligence (his place on such a committee is clearly an example of cosmic humor) investigating Trump’s role in the various Russian issues, his deceit via involvement in the same various issues, whether he reported to the President’s Office what was happening, etc. Just wondering…
He has no legislative achievements of note. No public service of note. Awarding him and the equally underachieved Jim Jordan this Medal craps on the idea behind the Medal and those that have it because they earned it. Mother Terasa, Van Cliburn and Mohammad Ali are not in the same league as Jordan or Nunes. It’s a great big dump on America to do this.