{"id":1257987,"date":"2022-01-31T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1257987"},"modified":"2022-01-31T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:24:13","slug":"freedom-convoy-holds-1st-press-conference-bans-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/freedom-convoy-holds-1st-press-conference-bans-mainstream-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Convoy Holds 1st Press Conference, Bans Mainstream Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffreedom-convoy-holds-1st-press-conference-bans-mainstream-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1257987&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Sunday, the Freedom Convoy 2022 held its first press conference with organizers Tamara Lich, Benjamin Dichter, and Chris Barber and bashed the legacy media, only taking questions from independent journalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have all the time in the world,\u201d Dichter stated. He continued:<\/p>\n<p><em>This is also why we omitted certain news agencies from this press conference, including the Toronto Star and the CBC who are banned from this press conference. And the reason they were banned is twofold. First, this entire week the CBC, Toronto Star \u2013 Yahoo News were retweeting and reposting with a few others \u2013 kept putting stories out that our GoFundMe was frozen or suspended because of nefarious reasons. You know \u201cright-wing truckers,\u201d \u201cdangerous people,\u201d and it was hysterical, me and Tamara were talking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dichter turned to Lich, \u201cRemember one day the Toronto Star story came out that \u2018GoFundMe has frozen the account\u2019?\u201d He asked, \u201cAnd I called her, and I said, \u2018Is everything okay?\u2019 And she\u2019s like, \u2018I just got off the phone with them 45 minutes ago. They\u2019re great. They\u2019re helping out. Everything\u2019s gonna be sorted out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/gofundme-withhold-millions-trucker-convoy-1.6327665\">reported<\/a> on January 25:<\/p>\n<p><em>GoFundMe has frozen access to the more than $4.7 million in funds raised by the trucker convoy now winding its way across the country toward Ottawa in a protest against vaccine mandates. \u201cWe require that fundraisers be transparent about the flow of funds and have a clear plan for how those funds will be spent. In this case, we are in touch with the organizer to verify that information,\u201d Rachel Hollis, a spokeswoman for the crowdfunding platform, said in an email. \u201cFunds will be safely held until the organizer is able to provide the documentation to our team about how funds will be properly distributed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/gofundme-freezes-5-million-raised-165920941.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANEgI2mE-p3n2MU86EmpZa2IP9T3AA9nurzf2roVDc93RNQpPbnI2xtt4KONadf6iGBGMIN4YQ1AkJKC7FMncNEVUfeU1KWSBTi8Np-nLGciw5zNclfj-zwXH_gCrkSUnwGkpm8WPBwCkHLVUcDJ-UkYaqzQSxbVxopmT8rAPEiK\">Yahoo News<\/a> reported on January 26:<\/p>\n<p><em>Hundreds of truck drivers protesting against the federal vaccine mandate at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/canada\">Canada<\/a>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/us\">U.S.<\/a>&nbsp;border have raised more than $5 million in donations from supporters worldwide via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/taking-back-our-freedom-convoy-2022\">GoFundMe<\/a>, but the fundraising platform has momentarily hit pause on organizers using the money.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was purely, purely just a fake story,\u201d Dichter continued. \u201cWas that a fake story to sabotage the donations that were coming in? Probably. You see a lot of that propaganda in the media.&nbsp;And then when the Toronto Star put that cartoon that Jordan Peterson put up, that sort of extremism we\u2019re not gonna tolerate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Canadian. Fascists. Think about that. From the poison pen of the Toronto Star. Friend to the working class. Except when they have opinions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KdloSSWMqV\">pic.twitter.com\/KdloSSWMqV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson\/status\/1487175822154907654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dichter declared, \u201cSo we know if we had invited the Toronto Star, CBC, all of these mainstream news organizations they will do what they always do. \u2026 They\u2019ll come in with five people and they will have these giant cameras and they\u2019ll take up half the floor space and bully everybody else. That is not what this is about; this is about us coming together, talking to one another, answering any questions that you have. If we have the answer we will tell you, if we don\u2019t have the answer we will tell you \u2018we don\u2019t know\u2019 and just have a nice conversation with each other and go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SHARE:<br \/>Convoy organizers hold first live press conference from an undisclosed location in Ottawa. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreedomConvoy2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreedomConvoy2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0h0nYpzZ5a\">https:\/\/t.co\/0h0nYpzZ5a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealKeean\/status\/1487857084578287621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, the Freedom Convoy 2022 held its first press conference with organizers Tamara Lich, Benjamin Dichter, and Chris Barber and bashed the legacy media, only taking questions from independent journalists. \u201cWe have all the time in the world,\u201d Dichter stated. 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