Trump Says Civilian Award He Gave To Donor ‘Much Better’ Than Medal Of Honor

LOADING ERROR LOADING Former President Donald Trump said Thursday the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, was “much better” than the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, because soldiers who receive the latter had to be severely injured or killed to receive it. “That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian, it’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version.” “It’s actually much better because everyone gets the congressional Medal of Honor, that’s soldiers, they’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead,” he went on. In a statement shared with HuffPost Friday, the Harris campaign said Trump’s words show he “knows nothing about service to anyone or anything but himself.” “For him to insult Medal of Honor recipients, just as he has previously attacked Gold Star families, mocked prisoners of war, and referred to those who lost their lives in service to our country as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’ should remind all Americans that we owe it to our service members, our country, and our future to make sure Donald Trump is never our nation’s commander in chief again,” Sarafina Chitika, a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign, said. Julia Nikhinson via Associated Press He has disavowed claims he called service members “losers.” But his former chief of staff, John Kelly, said last year Trump had, in fact, made all of those remarks.