Can and should Trump be impeached by Senate trial?

The lawyers are going to have a field day. It's the last thing Joe Biden wants to get messed up with as he tries to resolve a myriad problems but the fact is the impeachment of Donald Trump is going to remain a huge issue for weeks ahead. It's already causing a mini civil war inside the Republican party and this is bound to overlap with Biden's determination to get big-idea legislation through Congress. The ten Republican House representatives who dared to vote in favour of impeachment are being given a helluva time. Revenge rhetoric is everywhere. Poor Liz Cheney, one of the most senior Republicans in the House and the elder daughter of Republican icon, former Vice President Dick Cheney, is being targeted for the chop. They want her ousted from any leadership role. It's extraordinary, isn't it, that there are still so many dedicated Trumpists in the Republican party despite all the damage he did as president. They just can't let go. It's as if they are nothing without Trump at their side. Instead of being grown-up and forward-looking, these Republicans can't bear the thought of life without the Big Man. It's really rather pathetic. Of course impeachment of a Republican president won't go down well in history,and the Republicans in the House who voted against it will do their damndest to stop the trial in the Senate which Nancy Pelosi is determined to persist with even though Trump is no longer president. In some ways it doesn't make constitutional sense. How can you vote to remove the president from office when he no longer holds office? Trump is now a former president and a private citizen. Lawyers for Trump will obviously argue this one, claiming that a Senate trial is unconstitutional and unlawful. They may well have a case. But having passed the impeachment vote in the House there is a tremendous momentum for completing the process and putting Trump on trial in the Senate, probably in February. But such is the venom being directed against the ten Republicans who voted for impeachment in the House, it will take a brave Republican senator to do likewise when the trial is held. In which case, as was the case with the first impeachment trial over Ukrainegate, the conviction will fail because the required number of Republicans to vote alongside the Democrats will never be reached. Thus Trump will be acquitted for a second time, giving his supporters more ammunition to keep the name Trump alive and Trumpism rolling on towards 2024. A grim thought.