Jury finds only one of six Trump supporters sued in civil case liable for harassing Biden campaign bus in 2020
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A federal jury on Monday found only one of six Trump supporters sued in a civil case liable for harassing a Biden-Harris campaign bus nearly four years ago on a Texas highway. The civil case has tested a law that victims of political intimidation can use to try to hold others accountable.
A federal jury on Monday found only one of six Trump supporters sued in a civil case liable for harassing a Biden-Harris campaign bus nearly four years ago on a Texas highway. The civil case has tested a law that victims of political intimidation can use to try to hold others accountable. The trial, in the Austin, Texas, US District Court, throughout this month recreated for the jury the events around an October 2020 “Trump Train” – a caravan of cars and trucks driven by Trump supporters that slowed the Biden-Harris campaign bus to crawl. The jury awarded the bus driver $10,000, according to the final verdict form. The “Trump Train” activity also left a Biden campaign staffer’s SUV damaged after one of the Trump supporters side-swiped it, according to the court record. That Trump supporter, Eliazar Cisneros was found to be liable for a federal civil rights conspiracy violation. The jury fined him $30,000 as punishment. In addition to his actions in Texas, Cisneros testified that he helped to bring batons and bear mace to the January 6 Capitol riot in Washington to allegedly protect against leftist groups Antifa and Black Lives Matter. In a deposition, he also admitted he drove his truck into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in September 2020 in San Antonio, “just to make a statement,” according to the court record. The jury didn’t find any of the other five defendants from the “Trump Train” liable. None of the six face any criminal charges. The plaintiffs in the case include the bus driver, a campaign state director and Wendy Davis, a former Texas state senator who was on the Biden-Harris bus as a political surrogate and testified about the trauma of the incident.
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