Bidens questionable honorees: Letters to the Editor Jan. 7, 2025

Not content with pardoning son Hunter Biden and commuting hard-won federal death sentences, President Biden has now awarded a presidential medal to George Soros (“Megadonor among Joe’s medalists,” Jan.5).To be fair, Soros — as a young man — demonstrated incredible courage when escaping almost certain death by the Nazis.

But that was a long time ago and Soros has since emerged as a principal sponsor of virtually every far-left cause calculated to undermine our criminal-justice system.So what is Biden’s rationale for awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Soros? I suspect that, in Biden’s muddled mind, underwriting campaigns of far-left prosecutors is a virtue.Frankly, the Medal of Freedom, once considered a superlative honor, has become just another meaningless political and celebrity handout.Mitchell SchwefelBarnegat, NJBiden has not only devalued the US dollar, he has now devalued the Presidential Medal of Freedom.It’s shameful to place his pals beside the likes of former recipients such as Ralph Bunche, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, T.S.Eliot, Edward R.

Murrow, Jesse Owens, Norman Rockwell and countless others who contributed so much to America.I guess he’s not in a position to offer them Cabinet spots, so he handed out these medals like the kid in class who gives out lollipops on his birthday.Bo MaddenJupiter, Fla.Biden’s Medal of Freedom for Soros should be known as the “Presidential Medal of Destruction” for all the damage Soros has done to cities by helping absurd prosecutors who aided increases in crime and the losses of businesses, jobs and public safety.And former Sen.Hillary Clinton? She deleted 33,000 emails after they were subpoenaed, then wiped her computer of evidence, impeding an investigation.Gary LaytonInterlaken, NJThe only thing that Soros brought to this country was death and misery by funding radical left-wing politicians and district attorneys who refused to prosecute or jail violent criminals.Big cities across Amer...