An American version of Canada's "Freedom Convoy" was on the road and headed for Washington DC. While the group claims it’s a grassroots movement born from everyday people's resistance to coronavirus vaccine and masking mandates, it appears it is receiving dark-money funding from a conservative organisation.
The group bankrolling the pugnacious truckers is the American Foundation for Civil Liberties and Freedoms, with partners including QAnon conspiracy theorist General Mike Flynn and Dr Aaron Kheriaty, a professor who was fired from University of California Irvine for refusing to take the coronavirus vaccine and who has suggested Canada should face sanctions for its crackdown on protesters.
