{"id":2345050,"date":"2024-09-23T20:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T00:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/most-trump-train-drivers-cleared-in-2020-biden-bus-confrontation-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T20:09:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T00:09:56","slug":"most-trump-train-drivers-cleared-in-2020-biden-bus-confrontation-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/most-trump-train-drivers-cleared-in-2020-biden-bus-confrontation-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Most \u2018Trump Train\u2019 drivers cleared in 2020 Biden bus confrontation &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmost-trump-train-drivers-cleared-in-2020-biden-bus-confrontation-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2345050&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Texas jury has acquitted five supporters\u2063 of former President Donald Trump, who had been accused of \u200cthreatening Biden campaign\u200c officials during a confrontation involving \u2064a campaign bus on October 30, 2020. The jury \u200bfound\u2064 them\u2063 not guilty of violating the Ku Klux\u2062 Klan Act, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-playing-catch-me-if-you-can-rep-byron-donalds-on-vaccine-mandate\/\" title=\"Biden Playing \u2018Catch Me If You Can\u2019: Rep. Byron Donalds on Vaccine Mandate\">federal law aimed<\/a> at political violence and intimidation.\u2064 Only one defendant, Eliazar Cisneros, \u2062was held \u2064liable and ordered to pay damages related to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The situation arose when a group of Trump\u2063 supporters, known \u200bas the \u200c&#8221;Trump Train,&#8221; followed \u200band surrounded a Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway, ultimately causing\u2062 a collision with a campaign volunteer&#8217;s car. The following concerns over safety led to \u2063the cancellation of\u2062 several Democratic\u200c events that day. Passengers from the bus, including former state\u200d senator Wendy Davis, filed a lawsuit claiming they felt endangered during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors argued \u200cagainst the behavior of the Trump\u200b supporters,\u200d while the defendants maintained they were unaware of \u2062each other\u2019s actions at the time. During the \u2062incident, Trump publicly defended the supporters, criticizing the\u2064 FBI&#8217;s investigation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Most &lsquo;Trump Train&rsquo; drivers cleared in 2020 Biden bus confrontation<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1767835\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Texas<\/a> jury cleared nearly all six supporters of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> who were accused of threatening Biden campaign officials on a bus four years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>On Monday, a seven-person Austin jury found five Trump supporters innocent of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 federal law targeting political violence and intimidation tactics. <\/p>\n<p>Just one of the defendants, Eliazar Cisneros, was ordered to pay $30,000 in damages to the plaintiffs and $10,000 to the bus driver, Timothy Holloway.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The court&rsquo;s decision comes after the so-called Trump Train drivers faced a lawsuit for following and boxing in a campaign bus for President Joe Biden on Oct. 30, 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The New Braunfels Trump Train was comprised of a group of trucks waving Trump and American flags that trailed the campaign bus down a Texas highway for roughly 90 minutes. After one defendant collided with a campaign volunteer&rsquo;s car, all drivers were reduced to a 15 mph crawl.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Trump supporters cheer as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-workers-at-carlos-slims-telmex-launch-first-strike-in-decades\/\" title=\"Mexican workers at Carlos Slim\u2019s Telmex launch first strike in decades\">passing cars honk<\/a> their horns near a polling location on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo\/David J. Phillip)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Texas Democrats canceled three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mid-term-exam-all-the-latest-on-the-2022-elections\/\" title=\"MID-TERM EXAM: All The Latest On The 2022 Elections\">scheduled campaign events<\/a> that day due to &ldquo;safety concerns,&rdquo; while Democratic state Rep. Terry Canales asked the&nbsp;Texas Department of Public Safety to open an investigation into the &ldquo;multi-county, criminal behavior on 1-35.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Passengers on the bus, including former Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis and former Biden campaign staffer David Gins,&nbsp;sued the drivers in 2021, alleging they feared for their lives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dangerously surrounding somebody on the highway, anyone, a Republican, Democrat, anyone on the highway and forcing them out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifact-issues-bogus-fact-check-of-springfield-geese-hunting\/\" title=\"PolitiFact Issues Bogus Fact Check Of Springfield Geese Hunting\">town isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t OK, doesn&rsquo;t have a place in Texas, doesn&rsquo;t have a place in America and it has consequences,&rdquo; prosecuting attorney Samuel Hall said during an opening statement at the trial.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although the Democrats claimed the drivers participated in an orchestrated conspiracy, the defendants argued they had no knowledge of each other before or during the incident.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the incident occurred in 2020, Trump criticized the FBI for opening an investigation into the incident as he defended &ldquo;patriots&rdquo; who did &ldquo;nothing wrong.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong. Instead, the FBI &amp; Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat run cities and hurting our people! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/of6Lna3HMU\">https:\/\/t.co\/of6Lna3HMU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1323072051402350592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Instead, the FBI &amp; Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat-run cities and hurting our people!&rdquo; the former president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1323072051402350592?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a> in a post to X, referencing the protests that swept across the country in the summer of 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for one of the defendants argued that while her actions may have &ldquo;not been likable,&rdquo; they failed to meet the threshold of violating the law.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It may not be likable. It may not be her proudest moment. But it&rsquo;s not a violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act,&rdquo; Erin Mersino, a lawyer for defendant Dolores Park said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1767835\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1767835\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas jury has acquitted nearly all six supporters of former President Donald Trump involved in a confrontation with Biden campaign officials on a bus four years ago. On Monday, a seven-member jury in Austin found five of the Trump supporters not guilty of breaching the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 federal law aimed at political violence and intimidation. Only one defendant, Eliazar Cisneros, was ordered to pay $30,000 in damages to the plaintiffs and $10,000 to the bus driver, Timothy Holloway. This ruling follows a lawsuit against the so-called &#8220;Trump Train&#8221; drivers for tailing and surrounding a Biden campaign bus on October 30, 2020. The New Braunfels Trump Train consisted of trucks displaying Trump and American flags that followed the campaign bus along a Texas highway for about 90 minutes. After one driver collided with a volunteer&#8217;s car, all vehicles slowed down to just 15 mph.<\/p>\n<p>On Election Day (November 3, 2020), Texas Democrats canceled three planned events due to &#8220;safety concerns,&#8221; while Democratic state Rep. Terry Canales requested an investigation into what he described as &#8220;multi-county criminal behavior.&#8221; Passengers on the bus\u2014including former Democratic state Senator Wendy Davis\u2014filed suit against the drivers in 2021 over fears for their safety during the incident. Prosecutor Samuel Hall stated that surrounding someone dangerously on the highway is unacceptable regardless of political affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>While Democrats alleged that there was an organized conspiracy among drivers, defendants claimed they were unaware of each other before or during this event. At that time in 2020, Trump criticized an FBI investigation into this matter and defended those he called &#8220;patriots,&#8221; asserting they had done nothing wrong while suggesting authorities should focus instead on ANTIFA-related protests occurring across various cities during summer 2020.<\/p>\n<p>One defendant&#8217;s attorney argued that although her client&#8217;s actions might not have been commendable or proud moments for her personally, they did not constitute violations under the Ku Klux Klan Act: \u201cIt may not be likable&#8230; but it\u2019s not a violation,\u201d said Erin Mersino representing Dolores Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2345051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Trump-1-2.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[41561,41560,32076],"class_list":["post-2345050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden-bus-confrontation","tag-trump-train","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Trump-1-2.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}