Pastor, wife who helped organize 'Trump Train' to follow Biden bus testify: 'It was cool'

[Eugene]

Source: Austin American-Statesman

Pastor, wife who helped organize 'Trump Train' to follow Biden bus testify: 'It was cool'

Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman
Updated Tue, September 17, 2024 at 10:38 PM EDT·6 min read

Two defendants in the Texas "Trump Train" trial testified that the convoy of Donald Trump supporters that swarmed and surrounded a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris campaign bus on Interstate 35 nearly four years ago was "cool" while denying that they conspired to block or harass the tour bus.

New Braunfels pastor Steve Ceh and his wife, Randi, separately took the stand Monday as part of a lawsuit accusing the couple and four other defendants of illegally conspiring to stop the bus and its passengers from campaigning on Oct. 30, 2020. The bus occupants brought the case against the defendants under the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which prohibits conspiracy to inhibit political activity.

The jury trial is being held in federal court in Austin. Multiple members of Ceh's congregation have attended parts of the trial to support the pastor, who is also the chaplain for the Comal County Republican Party.

Randi Ceh, a Hallmark employee, acknowledged that she helped organize the convoy that day, writing in a Facebook post to the roughly 5,000-member New Braunfels Trump Train group that anyone interested in "following the Biden bus" could meet at Exit 183 by Solms Road in San Antonio. She was an administrator of the group, having created it to convene weekly Trump Train meetups with as many as 980 cars at its peak.

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[MagickMuffin]

1. Denying that they didn't conspire when that's exactly what they did

Church pastors terrorizing a political opponent’s movement on an interstate is what I would not call brotherly love but hate filled souls. I would not seek comfort at their church, although it would be fun to troll these unchristian members of hate.