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Mike Lindell Plans to Donate Pillows to Freedom Convoy Truckers
Saturday, 12 February 2022
MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell announced on Friday that he would be donating thousands of pillows to "Freedom Convoy" Canadian truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in Ottawa.
"In Canada, they have backed off on some of the mandates," Lindell said. "The truckers are gaining. It is working … they’re doing it now on the U.S. side. MyPillow’s getting involved. We’re shipping up pillows to all of the truckers."
"I don’t know if they’ll let us into Canada, but we’re gonna try and get pillows to all of them," he continued. "Our voices are getting out there, and things are getting done to get this—to fight the evil. I mean, it’s just unreal."
During an interview on Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), Lindell detailed that the distribution of the pillows would occur on a secret day to avoid "obstructionists."
"We’re busy. All of our employees are busy making pillows right now for the truckers in Canada," he told the network. "We’re going to try to get them through. I’m not going to say what day or ... there will be obstructionists."
Lindell added that he has a factory operational in Canada, but distributor issues caused by the CEO getting "canceled" for controversial comments about the 2020 presidential election have hurt production.
"Canadian companies canceled me too. Costco, the Canadian Shopping Channel, so our production went way down a year ago. So ... I got a little problem with [Canadian Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau," the pillow CEO said.
The latest donation by Lindell is not the first time he assisted people in need with his product, The Epoch Times reported.
Most recently, Lindell sent more than 10,000 pillows to victims of the Kentucky tornado in December 2021. In 2017, his team shipped six trucks loaded with almost 60,000 pillows to Houston to support those affected by Hurricane Harvey.
Rand Paul is 10-4 on trucker convoy in
Canada over COVID mandates coming
to US, to 'clog up cities'
Paul argues U.S. contributed to the Canadian trucker outrage by putting mask mandate on those crossing the border
By Just the News staff
Updated: February 11, 2022 -
Libertarian-mined Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul is getting behind the trucker convoy in Canada that opposes government-mandated COVID-19 vaccines and says he hope the movement comes to the U.S. to likewise “clog up cities."
"I’m all for it," Paul told The Daily Signal on Thursday. "Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights, to you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates."
Paul also argued the United States contributed to the trucker outrage north of the border that has now essentially gridlocked Windsor, Ontario.
"Some of this, we started," he said. “We put [COVID-19] mandates on truckers coming across the border from Canada so they put mandates on. And the truckers are annoyed. They're riding in a cab by themselves, most of them for eight, 10-hour long hauls, and they just want to do what they want to do. It's their own business."
While touting a U.S. version of the convoy, Paul also seems to take a dig at COVID health-safety policies in American cities that has made them nearly empty at times since the pandemic started roughly two years ago.
"It'd be great, but the thing is, it wouldn't shut the city down because the government workers haven't come to work in two years anyway," he said. "I don’t know if it'll affect D.C. It'd be a nice change. We’d actually have some traffic ... I hope the truckers do come to America. I hope they clog up cities."
Trump on Trucker Protests: U.S. 'Far
More of a Tinderbox Than Canada'
BY JASON LEMON ON 2/12/22
The trucker protests—or "Freedom Convoy"—began in Ottawa in late January. The movement rallied supporters against vaccine mandates for truckers implemented in Canada and led to the convoy blocking the Ambassador Bridge, a key border crossing between the U.S. and its ally to the north. Right-wing groups have jumped behind the movement, with many staunchly pro-Trump Republicans expressing support for the convoy.
During a Saturday morning interview with Fox News, Trump commented on the movement and suggested the U.S. could see an even worse situation. "Freedom Convoys" are now planning to launch related demonstrations in the U.S.
"I see they have Trump signs all over the place and I'm proud that they do," Trump told the hosts of Fox & Friends during a live phone interview. "But that's what happens, you can push people so far and our country is a tinderbox too, don't kid yourself. And there are plenty of [people from] our country up there right now."
The former president continued, saying, "when you look at what's happening in Canada—our country, I think, is far more of a tinderbox than Canada."
The Department of Homeland Security warned law enforcement agencies that trucker protests could cause problems this weekend as the nation tunes in to the Super Bowl. Specifically, DHS warned about the possibility that the movement could cause disruptions in Los Angeles, where the big game will be held on Sunday.
"The convoy will potentially begin in California as early as mid-February and arrive in Washington, DC, as late as mid-March, potentially impacting the Super Bowl LVI scheduled for 13 February and the State of the Union Address scheduled for 1 March," the DHS warned in a bulletin first reported by Yahoo News.
NBC News reported on Friday that there appeared to be foreign meddling involved with the "Freedom Convoy" protests. Facebook said that it had taken down accounts and posts linked to content farms in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Romania and several more countries, according to the report. Furthermore, large pro-Trump groups on social media have reportedly been changing their names to align with movement.
Facebook told NBC News that some of the online groups involved with promoting the trucker protest frequently linked users to websites that sold pro-Trump merchandise as well as anti-vaccine products. Meanwhile, right-wing figures in the U.S. appear to be attempting to replicate similar protests to the one in Canada. Pro-Trump lawmakers have voiced solidarity with the movement as well.
"I support Truckers. Because of the important role they have in our society delivering all our goods that we need to survive, but also because Truckers are God fearing peaceful Patriots who have the ability to end tyranny through peaceful protests," Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, tweeted on Saturday.
Newsweek reached out to Trump's press office for further comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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