House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., should receive the Medal of Honor for his work probing the Justice Department for documents related to the Russia investigation, President Trump said Thursday morning.
“There was tremendous corruption, and I’ll tell you what, these people want to get to the bottom and I don’t think people like Devin Nunes, he should get, if this all turns out like everyone thinks it will, Devin Nunes should get the Medal of Honor,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning.
“He should get a very important medal. Maybe we’ll call it ‘Medal of Freedom’ because we actually give them, high award for civilians,” Trump said Thursday. “He has done an amazing, guys like Meadows and Jim Jordan, all of these people, what they, what they go through and they’re right.”
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The Medal of Honor is the military’s highest award for combat bravery. The president is known to enjoy Medal of Honor ceremonies and has taken the time to get to know many of the living recipients.
Nunes, along with House Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan and Chairman Mark Meadows, has been actively working to get documents from the Justice Department related to how the FBI has applied and obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
