Texas Cultists Settle Suit Over Attack On Biden Bus

April 27, 2023 Crime, Trump cultists

Courthouse News reports:

Two participants in a Texas “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden campaign tour bus in a “madcap game of highway ‘chicken’” announced settlements Thursday in a lawsuit brought by bus riders who say the incident traumatized them.

A convoy of at least 40 Trump Train members – American flags and “Trump 2020 – Keep America Great” flags affixed to the tailgates of their pickup trucks – boxed the bus in on Interstate 35 while honking, yelling and making obscene gestures at the Democrats on board. Some of them had their phones out livestreaming the pursuit on social media.

For 90 minutes they surrounded the bus and forced its driver to slow down to 15 to 25 mph. The driver finally escaped the convoy by swerving onto a freeway exit in Austin. The campaign then canceled all remaining events on the tour.

Houston Public Media reports:

Lawyers representing the plaintiffs announced Thursday they have filed papers to dismiss Hannah Ceh and Kyle Kruger as defendants in the lawsuit. The case against the six other defendants remains pending.

The terms of the settlement were not made public, but the two issued formal apologies for their involvement in the “Trump Train,” according to a press release from Project Democracy, the lawyers representing the plaintiffs.

“Looking back, I would have done things differently. I do not feel that I was thinking things through at the time, and I apologize to the occupants of the bus for my part in actions that day that frightened or intimidated them,” Ceh wrote in her apology.

The Texas Tribune reports:

The confrontation, which was captured on video, made national news in the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election. It featured at least one minor collision and led to Texas Democrats canceling three scheduled campaign events in Central Texas due to “safety concerns.”

The Klan Act bars groups from joining together to obstruct free and fair federal elections by intimidating and injuring voters, or denying them the ability to engage in political speech.

Two of the other defendants who have not settled, Steve and Randi Ceh, were leaders of the New Braunfels Trump Train, according to the filing. Hannah Ceh is their daughter and a member of the group. The filing alleges that Kruger, who is engaged to Ceh, was driving her white Toyota Tundra while she sat in the passenger seat.

Multiple prominent Republicans celebrated the incident. Trump himself tweeted one video, proclaiming “I love Texas!” Trump later declared that the FBI should not investigate the attack, saying, “Those patriots did nothing wrong.” There’s much more at the first link above.



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