“History will remember your names, remember your courage, and remember your bravery,” Biden said, as the honorees sat behind him in the White House East Room.
President Biden on Friday honored “the heroes of January 6” at an emotional White House ceremony in which he awarded presidential medals to 14 people, including police officers who fought the pro-Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol two years ago and election workers who refused former President Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Three of the medals were awarded posthumously to the families of police officers who died in the day's attack.
President Biden presents a Presidential Citizens Medal to Metropolitan Police Department Officer Daniel Hodges in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 6, 2023. And as if to underscore the indignities they were forced to suffer, Trump — who had called Freeman “a professional vote-scammer and hustler” in his Jan. 2, 2021, phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — doubled down on his claims she had done something improper in a social media posting just this week. “What will the Great State of Georgia do with the Ruby Freeman MESS?” heBiden noted that Freeman and Moss, both of whom had testified last summer before the Jan.
President Biden presents a Presidential Citizens Medal to Albert Smith, a Republican former Philadelphia election commissioner, in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 6, 2023.
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