Subject: Re: Colorado Gift
civil proceeding without the subject being ...tried...is not present to face their accusers?

Trump was a party-intervenor, and was a full participant in the trial.

The issue had already been rejected by the US Senate, no facing ones accusers, to ability to rebut charges.....does this sound like the American way of Justice?

Again, there is a difference between civil and criminal charges. You can be acquitted of a criminal charge and subsequently found civilly to have committed those actions (most famously, perhaps, in the case of O.J. Simpson).