[Alberta's Child]

The trial didn’t have a chief justice, because they were trying to remove someone from office that was already out of office. IE, it made no sense.

It actually made a lot of sense. If Trump had been convicted in the Senate, they would have sought to disqualify him from holding Federal office again as the penalty.

[Ancesthntr]

“It actually made a lot of sense. If Trump had been convicted in the Senate, they would have sought to disqualify him from holding Federal office again as the penalty.”

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But it wouldn’t have been a valid conviction if the CJ wasn’t presiding. So it was actually pointless from a legal POV - and the Dems (and traitor-publicans like Liz Cheney) knew it from Day One.

The ONLY point was to try to further tarnish Trump’s reputation in the public eye, but IMHO it actually enhanced it. Trump is Teflon - every single thing that he’s accused of falls by the wayside, as he’s innocent. It backs up his claim that, “They’re not after me, they’re after you; I’m just in the way.”