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"Chief Justice only presides in trial of "the President", meaning the sitting President....text doesn't say "a President".

Again, you cannot Impeach the President as "A President", and then Trial him on those charges as a private citizen.

Just as you assert the former "language", thus "language" also fails the charge: the Constitution does not make private citizens subject to Impeachment.

And note Belknap's post-resignation trial is inapplicable here. (A) Trump did not resign, God bless him; and (B) Trump has what Belknap never had - presidential immunity.

Not only is Roberts going to have to rule on his absence, Queeg will be forced to address a seperate suit asserting that presidential immunity absolves him from the civil actions undertaken by others, and Roberts will be forced to address a case that will be dog-eared with references to Nixon v. Fitzgerald and Clinton v. Jones.

Thus Trump will remind us all that a living President, rather than having been tried and convicted after Office, was instead "alternatively sanctioned":

President Clinton’s admission of providing false testimony that was knowingly misleading, evasive, and prejudicial to the administration of justice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
his acknowledgement that his conduct violated the Rules of Professional Conduct of the Arkansas Supreme Court
the five-year suspension of his license to practice law and $25,000 fine imposed on him by the Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas
the civil contempt penalty of more than $90,000 imposed on President Clinton by the federal court for violating its orders
the payment of more than $850,000 in settlement to Paula Jones
the express finding by the federal court that President Clinton had engaged in contemptuous conduct; and
the substantial public condemnation of President Clinton arising from his impeachment.

Klink's perjury (in Office) and suborning perjury (in Office) failed removal, yet this ridiculous banana court insipidity by Madame Defarge arises from a speech where Trump said, "Our country has had enough. We will not take it any more and that’s what this is all about. To use a favourite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.". That's it. It's all about one crazy fucking old lady mad-ass butt-hurt than a dude put her muddy boots on her desk.

My advice to Trump is hire Dersh, hire Turley, but go all-in -- make it all about Pelosi and Schumer, drag Klink into it, drag Roberts into it, drag Karamela into it.