Hail to the Chief
by W.D. Ehrhart During a recent campaign event in New Jersey, Donald Trump proclaimed that the Presidential Medal of Freedom is the “equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor but civilian version. It’s actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor. They’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead. [Miriam Adelson, a major Republican donor to whom Trump gave the Medal of Freedom in 2018] gets it, and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman. They’re rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom and she got it through committees …