Federal Jury Clears Most ‘Trump Train’ Drivers In 2020 Voter Intimidation Case

A Texas federal jury dismissed on Monday most of the voter intimidation claims against a group of Trump supporters involved in surrounding a Biden-Harris campaign bus on Interstate 35 just days before the 2020 presidential election, the Associated Press reported.

A jury found Eliazar Cisneros liable while clearing five others in a civil case involving the “Trump Train,” which surrounded and slowed a Biden-Harris campaign bus between San Antonio and Austin, according to the AP. The court ordered Cisneros, whose vehicle made contact with a volunteer’s car while participating in the convoy, to pay the bus driver, Tim Holloway, $10,000 in damages and an additional $30,000 in punitive damages.

“We’re just ready to feel like normal people again,” Joeylynn Mesaros, one of the defendants, said, the AP reported. “It’s been a thousand something days to have our day in court.”

Holloway emphasized that the initial complaint was not politically motivated, according to the AP.

“When I came to this case it was never about 🏛️Politics