Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall Podcast.

We have a special, kind of an additional episode this week.

We have the impeachment trial which it kind of

ended last week but it ended ended two days ago on Wednesday when President

Trump was finally acquitted. he did this, you know, the traditional post-equital

vengeance kind of free- form rap yesterday.

Yeah, at the at the White House, which was interesting.

You know, when when President Clinton was quitted when he after you know at his impeachment trial

21 years ago he came out and gave like a very kind of somber you know somber

awshucks like I'm I'm so sorry for what I did and what I said i.e. what I did that with with with monoc

Lewinsky and then basically at best not coming clean about it whether he perjured

himself is kind of open question but but very sort of somber and kind of like okay I

screwed up I shouldn't have been kicked out of office, but I screwed up and I'm sorry.

And Trump's different guy, right?

And, you know, it's one of the funny things, and some of this is just, you know, the right in American politics, but it's very much Trump, that in most parts of our life and culture if someone says I was treated really bad and I was

really hurtful to me we kind of see that person as kind of like a weeny, or kind of like a wine.

It's not, that doesn't show strength.

You're a cry baby.

But he has this way of kind of like militant cry babyhood, right, to make it seem tough.

And up there saying, I should never have been treated this way, this was very hard on me, and I want payback and all this kind of stuff so that's

where we are we're gonna we're gonna we're going to wrap up impeachment

and then we're gonna talk about a couple big exclusives that

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