Most ‘Trump Train’ drivers cleared in 2020 encounter with Biden-Harris bus
A federal jury in Texas cleared nearly all of the “Trump Train” drivers who surrounded the Biden-Harris campaign bus on a highway days before the 2020 presidential election.
Just one of the six supporters of former President Trump sued in the trial was found responsible by the jury. All other voter intimidation allegations were rejected, The Associated Press reported.
Eliazar Cisneros, a Texas man whose car brushed up against another as they sped down Interstate 35, was ordered to pay the bus driver $10,000 and another $30,000 in punitive damages, the AP reported.
The lawsuit was filed in 2021 by former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) and five others who were on the Biden bus or driving alongside it at the time of the incident.
The campaign bus was driving from San Antonio to Austin for an event on the last day of early voting in Texas, when Trump supporters in a group of cars and pickup trucks adorned with Trump flags boxed it in.
The suit accused the Trump supporters who aggressively surrounded them on the highway of recklessly endangering their lives and trying to intimidate them. It accused the defendants of violating the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act, which bans efforts to harm people engaged in political advocacy.
The judge allowed the lawsuit to move forward in early 2022, and both sides celebrated the jury’s decision Monday.
Davis described the verdict as vindicating and a relief, the AP reported.
The five other Trump supporters were relieved with the ruling. Cisneros's lawyers, meanwhile, said they would appeal his guilty verdict.
The Associated Press contributed.
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