Speaking to the Milwaukee Police Association on Friday, U.S. Sen.
JD Vance was asked about criticism that former President Donald Trump has received for characterizing the Presidential Medal of Freedom as “better” than the military’s top honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor. Vance, who served in the U.S.
Marine Corps, said that “the veteran community is very much behind Donald Trump.” During an event at his New Jersey golf club on Thursday, Trump said the Medal of Freedom is “much better” than the top military honor because the servicemen and women who receive it have “been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead.” Trump was talking about the award after an introduction from GOP mega donor Miriam Adelson, to whom he gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019.
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