Jury Clears Most Defendants in ‘Trump Train’ Case

A federal jury in Texas on Sept. 23 rejected voter intimidation allegations against nearly all of the President Donald Trump supporters who surrounded a Biden–Harris campaign bus on a highway days before the 2020 election.
The campaign bus was traveling to Austin for an event when vehicles with Trump flags allegedly boxed it in.
Six Trump supporters were sued by people on board the bus, including former Texas Democrat lawmaker Wendy Davis, alleging violations of the Ku Klux Klan Act and other laws.
Jurors cleared five of the six defendants. The jury found Texas man Eliazar Cisneros responsible after his car brushed against another vehicle as the caravan of vehicles, dubbed the “Trump Train,” traveled down Interstate 35 from San Antonio to Austin on Oct. 30, 2020….