Trial begins over Texas 'Trump Train' highway confrontation

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 12:51 AM EDT, September 9, 2024


AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal trial is set to begin Monday over claims that supporters of former President Donald Trump threatened and harassed a Biden-Harris campaign bus in Texas four years ago, disrupting the campaign on the last day of early voting.

The civil trial over the so-called “Trump Train” comes as Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris race into the final two months of their head-to-head fight for the White House in November.

Democrats on the bus said they feared for their lives as Trump supporters in dozens of trucks and cars nearly caused collisions, harassing their convoy for more than 90 minutes, hitting a Biden-Harris campaign staffer’s car and forcing the bus driver to repeatedly swerve for safety.

“For at least 90 minutes, defendants terrorized and menaced the driver and passengers,” the lawsuit alleges. “They played a madcap game of highway ‘chicken’ coming within three to four inches of the bus. They tried to run the bus off the road.” The highway confrontation prompted an FBI investigation, which led then-President Trump to declare that in his opinion, “these patriots did nothing wrong.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/texas-trump-train-trial-ca5727a0eb9e9e06067e69bd6b23954e

[Botany]

1. Trump, "these patriots did nothing wrong."

They should have been charged criminally years ago and then sued civilly. Much of the P.T.B.
in Texas are very sympathetic to the MAGA/Christo Fascist agenda. They should have been
arrested on the spot back in 2020 but weren’t. Btw Trump should have been arrested on 1/7/21
too.

[Oopsie Daisy]

2. Texas has the death penalty, right? I doubt these crimes rise to that level.

[sheshe2]

3. lock them up...it should have happened years ago

The lawsuit names six defendants, accusing them of violating the “Ku Klux Klan Act,” an 1871 federal law to stop political violence and intimidation tactics.

The same law was used in part to indict Trump on federal election interference charges over attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection. Enacted by Congress during the Reconstruction Era, the law was created to protect Black men’s right to vote by prohibiting political violence.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. This will be a fun trial to watch

[et tu]

5. so glad it's a federal case

and not state- results will be enlightening~

[purr-rat beauty]

6. Seeing that it was politically motivated

It should have the scent of domestic terrorism.

[Boomerproud]

7. Prove me wrong, judge and jury.

I'll be watching.