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Texas jury finds one ‘Trump Train’ driver liable for encircling 2020 Biden-Harris bus

a bus during sunset
President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris rode on a small business bus tour in Phoenix on 8 October 2020. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

A federal jury in Texas on Monday cleared five supporters of Donald Trump but found one driver liable in a civil trial over a so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus on a busy highway days before the 2020 election.

The two-week trial in a federal courthouse in Austin centered on whether the actions of the “Trump Train” participants amounted to political intimidation. Among those onboard the bus was Wendy Davis, the former Democratic lawmaker, who testified she feared for her life while a convoy of Trump supporters boxed in the bus along Interstate 35.

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