Texas Senator Ted Cruz attributed the Freedom Convoy as a “major reason” for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recently announced plans to resign.
Cruz shared one of his old posts celebrating the convoy from Mar. 10, 2022, on Tuesday, reaffirming in his recent post that he was proud to stand by the truckers.
“His repressive policies were so over the top, that was the beginning of the end,” wrote Cruz.
The reshared photo wasn’t Cruz’s only post about the convoy.
He previously called out the Ottawa police for threatening any Canadians who were involved in the convoy with “financial sanctions and criminal charges.”
“This is what happens without the First Amendment,” said Cruz.
President-elect Donald Trump previously stood with the truckers as well.
“The tyranny we have witnessed in Canada in recent weeks should shock and dismay people all over the world,” said Trump. “In an advanced Western democracy, the peaceful movement of patriotic truckers, workers, and families protesting for their most basic rights and liberties has been violently put down.”
Trump added that Canadians participating in the convoy had their assets and life savings frozen, and were slandered as Nazis, racists, and terrorists. He said they were arrested and charged with phoney crimes and falsely accused of being foreign loyalists.
“They’re being hunted down like enemies of their own government and treated worse than drug dealers and murderers or rapists,” said Trump. “A line has been crossed. You’re either with the peaceful truckers, or you are with the left-wing fascists.”
Trump said at the time that he stood with the truckers and Canadians fighting for freedom to a standing applause from his supporters.
Trump’s Vice President J.D. Vance similarly previously supported the convoy.
“The Canadian truckers have killed zero people and are being treated like terrorists in their own country,” wrote Vance in a post to X in Feb. 2022.
Vance also stood up for Canada, specifically Canadian Christians, when he sided with Conservative MP Jamil Jivani, who was calling for additional protections.
Trudeau announced on Monday that he would resign as Liberal leader and prime minister when the party chooses a replacement. He also prorogued Parliament until Mar. 24.
President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated on Jan. 20.