Thoughts are you’re spot on.
A laughable sham impeachment in the House, and the much greater laughable sham trial in the Senate, given the absence of both Justice and also the Chief Justice.
Both exercises are total theater without said president in office to impeach nor the cover of the Constitution to do it. The latter here would be true even if Roberts were willing to preside.
Then he becomes the equally laughable *CJ... (aka) “Comedian Justice of the Supreme Court”. :)
The dems position in the trial will be that they don’t need 67 votes to convict and remove Trump since he’s “been removed” by the voters. They will go direct to the only judgement they have to deal, which is disqualification that needs only 51 votes. They’ll get close to 60 to disqualify Trump.