Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Lionel Messi and Bono are among 19 people President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

WASHINGTON — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly frigid Saturday afternoon, President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 of the most famous names in politics, sports, entertainment, civil rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy and science.

They went to George W. Romney, who served as both a Michigan ... the front man for rock band U2 and a social justice activist. Soros' son Alex Soros accepted the medal on his father's behalf.

U.S. President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients on Saturday including George Soros and Hillary Clinton. The White House citation for the nation’s highest civilian honor noted Soros’s rise from surviving the Holocaust as a young Hungarian Jew to becoming one of the richest men in the world.

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