Trump critic Liz Cheney to be awarded Presidential Citizens Medal by Biden

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President Joe Biden is handing the second-highest civilian honor to fierce Donald Trump critics Liz Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson for their work leading the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney speaks at a town hall with Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, at the Royal Oak Music Theatre on October 21, 2024 in Royal Oak, Michigan. She will receive the Presidential Citizens Medal Thursday evening Trump recently appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press, saying that “Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” He baselessly claimed they “deleted and destroyed” testimony and added: “Honestly, they should go to jail.” Evan Wolfson and attorney Mary Bonauto, who both fought for same-sex marriage, will also receive the medal, as will Frank Butler, who set new standards for treating injuries in war, and Diane Carlson Evans, the founder of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation and an army nurse during the Vietnam War. Biden is set to give the award posthumously to four people — former war correspondent Joseph Galloway, Louis Lorenzo Redding, an attorney and civil rights advocate, former Delaware judge Collins Seitz, and Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi, who was detained along with other Japanese Americans during the Second World War.