Jury Acquits All But One In 2020 Biden Bus Attack

September 24, 2024 Crime, Trump cultists

The Associated Press reports:

A federal jury in Texas on Monday rejected voter intimidation allegations against all but one of a group of former President Donald Trump supporters who surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus on an interstate days before the 2020 election.

Only one of the six Trump supporters who were sued in the civil trial was held responsible by the jury. A Texas man whose car brushed up against another as the caravan of vehicles dubbed the “Trump Train” raced down Interstate 35, was ordered to pay the bus driver $10,000 and another $30,000 in punitive damages.

“We’re just ready to feel like normal people again,” said Joeylynn Mesaros, one of the defendants, who described being harassed for participating in the ‘Trump Train.’ “It’s been a thousand something days to have our day in court.”

The Texas Tribune reports:

The seven-person jury, which deliberated for most of Monday, said just one of the defendants, Eliazar Cisneros, violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 when the so-called Trump Train — a monicker for caravans to show support for the former president.

Joeylynn Mesaros, another defendant, said she felt vindicated after what she saw as a lawsuit brought by group of Democrats trying to chill speech of those with whom they disagree.

Her lawyer said they will file a motion to get their attorneys fees covered by the plaintiffs, estimating she and her husband Robert Mesaros, another defendant, spent between $200,000 and $300,000 on the case.

Some cultists in the caravan, whose vehicles bore QAnon slogans, were armed.

Last year Texas police were ordered to pay $175,000 for failing to respond to frantic calls from people on the bus.

Marco Rubio, Trump Junior, and Jeanine Pirro were among the prominent cultists who celebrated the attack.

Trump later declared that the FBI should not investigate the attack, saying, “Those patriots did nothing wrong.”



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