Legal Fees Mount for Trump Train Couple Who ‘Escorted’ Biden Bus

A couple that joined the Trump Train following a Biden-Harris campaign bus on a Texas highway in 2020 has spent $80,000 defending themselves against a lawsuit claiming voter intimidation under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.

Joeylynn and Robert Mesaros of New Braunfels, Texas, told The Epoch Times they did nothing wrong.

They believe the civil suit filed against them in 2021 by supporters of President Joe Biden was designed to punish political opposition and chill free speech.

“While their plan is ultimately to bankrupt us in this process, we know that money is replaceable,” Joeylynn Mesaros said in an email. “We are focusing our attention on being joyful in our family, our health, and other things they cannot take from us.”

Videos of  Trump Train members surrounding the bus as it traveled on Interstate 35 near Austin went viral and drew praise from then-president Donald Trump.

The FBI investigated the incident, which resulted in a collision after a Biden supporter’s white vehicle appeared to cross into the lane of a truck driven by a Trump supporter. No charges were filed.

The couple’s ordeal started eight months after they joined the caravan of trucks and cars decorated with Trump stickers and flags.

The Mesaroses were shocked to find out about the lawsuit when a friend alerted them to a CNN story that detailed the case. They weren’t sure the suit was real until they were served with papers four weeks after the media reported it.

“It’s been crazy, like something you never expect to happen,” said Robert Mesaros. “It blew my mind. We didn’t know what to do.”

Multiple attorneys at the Texas Civil Rights Project, Protect Democracy Project, and the international firm of Willkie Farr and Gallagher out of Washington filed the lawsuit against Trump Train participants and a

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