'Trump Train' Members Cleared Of Wrongdoing In Connection With 2020 Incident

A federal jury in Texas has cleared nearly all "Trump Train" defendants in connection with a 2020 incident that saw a convoy of Trump supporters driving alongside a Biden-Harris campaign bus. The Trump supporters had been accused of "voter intimidation" and attempting to run the bus off the road, while the plaintiffs in the case accused them of causing "emotional distress."

Five of the six defendants were cleared in the civil lawsuit by the jury. One man, Eliazar Cisneros, whose truck bumped into a white SUV, was ordered to pay the bus driver $10,000 and $30,000 in punitive damages. None of the defendants were hit with criminal charges.

In a statement to Fox News, defendants Steve and Randi Ceh, along with Joeylynn Mesaros, described the case as politically motivated lawfare that caused great strain on their lives.

The trio told Fox News that the incident was largely "uneventful" and that the bus and the SUV were swerving in and out of traffic. According to them, the event was blown out of proportion by partisan media outlets who sought to paint Trump supporters as extremists.

"It was very friendly. I actually have tons of video of friendly encounters where we're waving on the side of the road, smiling, the bus is just driving, and the trucks are driving behind it," Mesaros recalled.

"Through the lawsuit, we did identify there were maybe one or two vehicles that were driving in a way that we wouldn't have driven. I think at worst, it's maybe a traffic citation, not anything major or extreme, certainly not a conspiracy under the Ku Klux Klan law to intimidate voters. But those people weren't sued, it was just intentionally us [and] I think that we were targeted as what they perceived maybe to be easy targets, but they couldn't have imagined that God would sustain us in this fight and we would prevail."

The plaintiffs had accused the "Trump Train" of assault, political intimidation tactics, and violating state law. They also attempted to argue that the group violated the intimidation tactics, violating state law and the federal Enforcement Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act.