A federal jury in Texas cleared practically all the “Trump Train” drivers who surrounded the Biden-Harris marketing campaign bus on a freeway days earlier than the 2020 presidential election.
Simply one of many six supporters of former President Trump sued within the trial was discovered accountable by the jury. All different voter intimidation allegations had been rejected, The Related Press reported.
Eliazar Cisneros, a Texas man whose automobile brushed up in opposition to one other as they sped down Interstate 35, was ordered to pay the bus driver $10,000 and one other $30,000 in punitive damages, the AP reported.
The lawsuit was filed in 2021 by former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) and 5 others who had been on the Biden bus or driving alongside it on the time of the incident.
The marketing campaign bus was driving from San Antonio to Austin for an occasion on the final day of early voting in Texas, when Trump supporters in a gaggle of automobiles and pickup vehicles adorned with Trump flags boxed it in.
The swimsuit accused the Trump supporters who aggressively surrounded them on the freeway of recklessly endangering their lives and attempting to intimidate them. It accused the defendants of violating the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act, which bans efforts to hurt folks engaged in political advocacy.
The choose allowed the lawsuit to maneuver ahead in early 2022, and either side celebrated the jury’s determination Monday.
Davis described the decision as vindicating and a aid, the AP reported.
The 5 different Trump supporters had been relieved with the ruling. Cisneros’s attorneys, in the meantime, stated they’d enchantment his responsible verdict.
The Related Press contributed.
