Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson — come on down and collect your door prizes.
Cheney, the former congresswoman from Wyoming who burned down every principal she ever held dear to engage in the J6 investigative crusade, and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who chaired the Select Committee investigating a relatively mundane protest at the Capitol, are set to accept some very shiny participation awards.
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Joe Biden, currently serving as president in name only, will award the two committee circus ringleaders with the nation’s second highest civilian award — the Presidential Citizens Medal.
The dynamic duo are two of 20 individuals set to be honored with the award on Thursday.
“President Biden believes these Americans are bonded by their common decency and commitment to serving others,” a statement from the White House reads. “The country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice.”
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This, as the committee’s body of work got nuked entirely when Special Counsel Jack Smith dismissed his election interference case against Trump. Not to mention the cover-up.
Congressional colleagues have accused Thompson and the J6 panel of failing to preserve a significant number of documents from their work — roughly 1.5-2 terabytes worth — and actively deleting over 100 encrypted files, which were later recovered by a forensics team, despite then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) demanding they preserve all records.
The January 6th committee also pushed a debunked conspiracy theory regarding a GOP lawmaker allegedly conducting a “reconnaissance tour” prior to the riot and successfully doctored text message evidence. Thompson famously told reporters that he would start holding public hearings because “the public needs to know what to think.”
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Cheney’s career-wrecking participation on the committee, meanwhile, has been nothing short of spectacular. She played a key role on a committee that used specious evidence to create a false media narrative about insurrection and ultimately led to jail time for multiple Trump associates who refused to cooperate with the circus.
Cheney may go down as one of the most significant political losers ever to self-immolate on the public stage. Her Trump obsession was such that she was soundly defeated in her primary by nearly 40 percent after representing Wyoming’s at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2023.
She was such a loser that she dragged Kamala Harris, an intellectually stunted purveyor of word salad who sometimes serves as vice president, down with her. A left-leaning Data for Progress poll showed independent voters in Michigan and Pennsylvania declaring they were “less enthusiastic” to vote for Kamala after she campaigned alongside Liz.
Thompson and Cheney’s efforts to foment and keep the January 6th “riot” lie alive have led to discussions behind the scenes that they might require pardons from President Biden as Trump gets set to return to the White House.
Instead, they’ll get a medal and a pair of t-shirts that say, “I destroyed my career pushing fake stories, and all I got was this stupid t-shirt.”
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Okay, I made up that last part, but that’s pretty much what it amounts to.
Trump addressed Thompson and Cheney’s role in pushing a false narrative about the riot and added, “Those people committed a major crime.”
“Honestly, they should go to jail,” he added.
I agree with President Trump.
For what Liz Cheney and the January 6th Committee did, they should go to jail. pic.twitter.com/eKEZOkDh8K
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) December 9, 2024
Last year, President Biden held a similar ceremony, awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to 12 individuals on the second “anniversary” of the January 6th protests, with the recipients including several Capitol Police officers.
Those honored at the time included Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, a former officer and current CNN contributor Michael Fanone, Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, and a posthumous award for Officer Brian Sicknick.
RedState’s Bonchie reported on the ceremony, noting that Biden himself helped spread lies about the protests, including an assertion that “insurrectionists” on that day killed William Evans, a now-deceased USCP officer, and Sicknick.
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Sicknick died of a stroke after the riot, and his death was ruled by “natural” causes and not “hastened by an injury.” Evans was killed months later by a Nation of Islam follower.
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It is important to remember that a total of four people died during the Capitol riot, but only unarmed Air Force veteran and avid supporter of former President Trump, Ashli Babbitt, was killed. Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd gunned down Babbitt.
Also receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal today will be former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), described by the Associated Press as “the president’s longtime friend.”
Dodd was involved in an allegation in 1985 against former Senator Ted Kennedy in which the pair were accused of sexually assaulting a waitress.
The Citizens Medal recognizes those Americans “who have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.”
