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Explainer: What it would take for Congress to impeach Trump

US President Donald Trump speaks while meeting with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York. [Reuters]

Some of US President Donald Trump’s critics in the House of Representatives are calling for an impeachment investigation following a whistleblower complaint that has roiled Washington.

The complaint, which came from inside the intelligence community, focused on a July phone call in which Trump repeatedly pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, who is one of Trump’s chief political rivals, according to reports by the Wall Street Journal and other U.S. media outlets.

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