President Obama would “take a look” at proposed legislation that would revoke Bill Cosby’s Presidential Medal of Freedom if Congress approved it, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told ABC News.
Arizona Republican Congressman Paul Gosar today introduced a measure to “affirm the power of the president” to revoke the medal — bestowed on Cosby in 2002 by George W. Bush — in light of a criminal charge stemming from an alleged 2004 indecent assault and dozens of other allegations of sexual misconduct dating back decades.
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