this, of course, led to Trump’s first impeachment. Zelensky found himself caught in the midst of a pitched partisan battle in the United States—exactly where he did not want to be. In the impeachment hearings and the trial that followed, it was clear that Trump had sought to extort a foreign leader for his own reelection purposes. In a verdict that was entirely predictable, the Republican-controlled Senate acquitted Trump on what was a purely party-line vote in February 2020; among Republicans, only Senator Mitt Romney of Utah crossed party lines to vote to convict Trump of abuse of his
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