{"id":1283070,"date":"2022-02-08T19:09:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T00:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1283070"},"modified":"2022-02-08T19:09:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T00:09:35","slug":"white-house-defends-rights-of-canadian-trucker-protesters-as-justin-trudeau-smears-freedom-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-defends-rights-of-canadian-trucker-protesters-as-justin-trudeau-smears-freedom-convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Defends Rights of Canadian Trucker Protesters As Justin Trudeau Smears Freedom Convoy"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwhite-house-defends-rights-of-canadian-trucker-protesters-as-justin-trudeau-smears-freedom-convoy%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=1283070&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jen-Psaki-Speaking_-Canadian-Truck-Bubble-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The White House on Tuesday backed the right of Canadian truckers to protest Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the overbearing coronavirus restrictions and vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe of course support as you know the right to freedom of speech and protest,\u201d White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during the daily briefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEveryone can peacefully protest, we fully support that,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The White House response differs from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/08\/canada-pm-justin-trudeau-belittles-freedom-convoy-a-few-people-shouting-and-waving-swastikas\/\">smeared<\/a> Freedom Convoy protestors as a \u201cfringe minority\u201d with \u201cunacceptable views\u201d and described them as racist.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing protests of the Canadian vaccine mandates and coronavirus restrictions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/canadas-covid-19-protests-threaten-border-trade-with-us\">shut down <\/a>traffic on the Ambassador Bridge between Canada and Detroit on Monday, a major trade route with the United States.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Psaki, however, downplayed the idea that the congestion was directly related to vaccine requirements, claiming there is \u201czero indication\u201d that vaccine requirements in various industries cause disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we do see some of these congestions due to protests, it\u2019s clear these disruptions have broadened in scope beyond the vaccine requirement implementation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki defended the idea of vaccine mandates but acknowledged the protests were having an impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that requirements work,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have not seen a disruption as it relates to requirements in the industry, where we have seen disruption has been related to these convoys and protests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/feb\/04\/us-anti-vaccine-mandate-convoy-canada\">reports<\/a> of an organization of truckers in the United States protesting vaccine mandates conducting their own protest in Washington, D.C., Psaki deferred to security and law enforcement officials in the administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Tuesday backed the right of Canadian truckers to protest Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the overbearing coronavirus restrictions and vaccine mandates. \u201cWe of course support &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}