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The historic impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump got under way earlier this month when Chief Justice John Roberts swore in the 100 US Senators who will oversee the trial. At the heart of the case is the allegation that Trump withheld military aid and a White House meeting to put pressure on Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, who could be the Democratic Party’s Presidential candidate in the 2020 US election, as well as his son Hunter Biden. Given the partisan nature of the trial, and the Republican Party’s Senate majority, the expectation is that that Trump will be acquitted.