Juno News - The legacy media is misrepresenting the Freedom Convoy

00:00:00.000 I'm going to play a very brief snippet and the reason it's a brief snippet is because this was

00:00:05.140 the brief snippet that a global news reporter shared online and it is a brief snippet that

00:00:12.680 takes a lot of liberties as does the accompanying tweet. Why don't you take a look? Yeah but you

00:00:19.500 guys raised an enormous amount of money outside of that right? You were raising thousands of

00:00:23.820 dollars a day in cash and e-transfers correct? Yeah the e-transfers would have went into

00:00:29.820 Mrs. Litch's personal bank account. And cash? I don't know what happened with the cash. There was

00:00:37.260 always people donating cash. It was all around I guess. So that is a bit of an interesting clip. Now

00:00:43.700 just for context that was lawyer Paul Champ who is representing the Coalition of Ottawa Residents and

00:00:49.620 Businesses and Paul Champ is asking about the money which was not an aspect of the convoy that Chris

00:00:56.460 Barber was really doing all that much about. And what David Baxter of Global Rights is after the

00:01:02.060 Freedom Convoy's GoFundMe got shut down Chris Barber testifies e-transfers went to Tamara Leach's

00:01:07.500 personal bank account and he doesn't know what happened with all the cash. And you're like oh

00:01:12.120 wow that sounds like Tamara Leach was making away with millions. And then Rachel Gilmore also of Global

00:01:17.740 News tweets the following. When Chris Barber is asked about the money the convoy raised quote the

00:01:24.220 e-transfers would have went into Ms. Leach's personal bank account. As for the cash he said I don't know

00:01:29.760 what happened with the cash. I left out two words from her tweet there which are at the very top

00:01:35.100 when she says oh wow treating this as explosive treating it as a bombshell like Chris Barber has just

00:01:41.760 admitted that Tamara Leach was putting all the money in her personal bank account and then they don't know

00:01:46.060 what happened with the cash. The reality is that clip which I think was 22 seconds long condensed

00:01:53.520 what was a minutes long exchange that covered a range of these issues and it took it in a way that

00:02:01.520 deliberately misrepresented the actual discussions. Now the reason Chris Barber doesn't know what

00:02:06.960 happened with all of the cash and specifically that's referring to cash donations that were given

00:02:12.940 after all the account freezes after the GoFundMe was shut down after the court order prohibiting

00:02:18.300 people from donating to give send go and people were giving truckers cash. Chris Barber said yeah I

00:02:24.460 wasn't involved in that so I really don't know what happened. I know people were giving out envelopes

00:02:28.400 to truckers but I wasn't overseeing it. So when he's saying I don't know what happened all the cash he

00:02:32.860 means that he literally was not involved in that part of the operation. And the money going into

00:02:38.880 Tamara Leach's personal account this is like as old news as it gets because nothing has been

00:02:45.320 re-litigated and discussed more about the convoy than the money. What happened here was GoFundMe

00:02:51.740 initially released one million dollars of the funds that have been donated. They didn't have a corporation

00:02:57.740 set up at this early stage so that GoFundMe needed to give it to someone so Tamara Leach was the one who set

00:03:04.000 up the account. They had a plan in place to distribute the money so GoFundMe transferred a

00:03:09.400 million dollars into a personal bank account in Tamara Leach's name which was only used for convoy

00:03:15.880 funds. It wasn't the account that she used to buy her groceries or to go and buy a canoe from Canadian

00:03:21.500 Tire. I don't know if Tamara Leach has ever bought a canoe from Canadian Tire. That was just the weirdest

00:03:26.780 incident I could come up with as far as like a possible personal purchase. So I've been in Ottawa too long.

00:03:31.820 I'm starting to be weird.

Juno News - November 04, 2022