Senator Schmitt Requests Presidential Medal of Freedom for Conservative Icon Pat Buchanan

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) wrote a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Patrick J. Buchanan for his contributions to the America First movement.

Senator Schmitt wrote: "For more than half a century, Pat Buchanan has been a courageous intellectual and political trailblazer. He devoted his life and career to challenging the elite consensus on behalf of the Americans he famously described as the 'conservatives of the heart' - the working men and women who shared our beliefs and convictions, but had been abandoned by both parties in Washington."

The letter continued: "Mr. Buchanan was a prophetic voice on the defining issues of our time: Immigration, trade, foreign policy, and the 'cultural war' that the Left was waging in America. While these issues were ignored or dismissed for decades by Washington, they were all too real for Americans in towns like the one I grew up in. As I noted in a speech I gave urging support for your America First trade reforms earlier this year, the elite consensus that both you and Mr. Buchanan opposed 'sent our children and our wealth overseas to defend the borders of distant nations, while throwing open our own borders to a tidal wave of mass migration here at home.'"

The letter concluded: "That is precisely why Mr. Buchanan's message resonated with millions of Americans: His unapologetic defense of the American worker, the American family, and the sovereignty of the American nation spoke for them and their interests, when no one else would. In awarding him with our nation's highest civilian honor, you would not only be recognizing the service of one man but vindicating the cause he fought for - a cause which finally found its champion in your person. Such an honor would formally affirm that Mr. Buchanan is one of the great patriots of our time - a man who championed the forgotten Americans and laid the intellectual groundwork for the political realignment you led. I respectfully appreciate that you consider this recommendation to confer the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Patrick J. Buchanan."

Read the full letter HERE.

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