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By Khaleda Rahman
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has slammed Donald Trump's criminal trial, branding it a "kangaroo court."
"Free this man from the Kangaroo Court & allow him to return full-time to the campaign trail," Abbott, a Republican and Trump ally, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
"Let voters decide, not a leftist ideologue judge doling out partisan decisions. He will secure the border, slash inflation, end wars, restore peace on campuses & lock up criminals."
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Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is facing four criminal cases as he seeks to win back the White House in November.
He has repeatedly characterized the cases as politically motivated and timed to take him off the campaign trail. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and denied wrongdoing.
Newsweek has contacted Abbott's office for further comment via email.
Abbott's post drew mixed responses from social media users, with some saying they wanted a jury to decide if Trump is guilty.
"No, I would rather let a jury decide if he is guilty of crimes or not," one person wrote. "Just because he is a politician running for office doesn't make him above the law. You might want to remember that."
Another wrote: "It's a jury of his peers that will be making the decision if he's innocent or guilty Greg."
However, others agreed with Abbott.
"Gov Abbot for VP!!" one wrote.
"Yes, let the people decide," another said.
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Trump is currently on trial in Manhattan, forced to spend most weekdays sitting silently in the courtroom instead of campaigning. "I'm being forced to endure a Biden show trial," he told a crowd of supporters at a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday.
He is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records. The charges center on allegations that Trump falsified internal records kept by the Trump Organization to hide the true nature of payments made to Michael Cohen, his then personal lawyer, to bury allegations of extramarital affairs that arose during his presidential campaign in 2016.
It is not clear if the other three cases will reach trial before November's election.
Two of the cases against Trump were brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
One accuses him of illegally hoarding classified documents that he took with him after he left office in January 2021 at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and then obstructing the government's efforts to get them back. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who is overseeing that case, canceled a May 20 trial date in that case and postponed it indefinitely.
The other federal case brought by Smith charges Trump with conspiring to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden in the run-up to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan formally postponed the trial in February and a new date has not been set. The Supreme Court heard arguments in April on Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution in that case.
Trump is also charged with taking part in a scheme to illegally try to overturn his 2020 loss to Biden in Georgia. A trial date in that case has not been set.
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