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Donald Trump is doubling down on his widely-criticized remarks from last week, when he declared the Presidential Medal of Freedom he awarded to Miriam Adelson, a billionaire Republican megadonor and the eighth-richest woman in the world, was “much better” than the Congressional Medal of Honor given to members of the U.S. Armed Forces for acts of valor, acts that have led recipients to the loss of their limbs, and sometimes to the loss of their lives, in service to their fellow soldiers and to their country. Trump had described Medal of Honor recipients on Thursday as “either in very bad shape …

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