A jury in Texas began to deliberate Friday whether the so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus days before the 2020 election in a heated highway encounter amounted to political intimidation.

Facing intense criticism for promoting false claims that Haitian immigrants in the Ohio city of Springfield are abducting and eating other residents’ pets, Sen. JD Vance has tried to pivot by blaming Vice President Kamala Harris and the influx of Haitians during her vice presidency for a variety of broader social issues in Springfield.

After both sides in the “Trump Train” trial rested their case Friday, the outcome could depend on whether the Texas jury accepts slang-ridden social media posts as evidence of a conspiracy to box in a Biden-Harris bus the week before the 2020 presidential election and keep it from campaign events.

A civil trial in Texas over a so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus days before the 2020 election reached clo