Kyle Kulinski Owes Us an Apology
- john raymond
- May 28
- 3 min read
There are moments in public discourse when decency demands more than silence. When opinion-makers, commentators, and influencers who got it wrong must do more than shrug. They must look their audience in the eye, admit they failed them, and apologize.
This is one of those moments.
Kyle Kulinski owes us an apology. Because for years, he laughed. He mocked. He dismissed. He waved away the evidence and belittled the concern. Anyone who suggested that Donald Trump was compromised by, colluding with, or favoring Vladimir Putin was met with sneers and sarcasm. It was all a “hoax,” Kyle told us. “Russia, Russia, Russia” — a distraction, a media fabrication, a conspiracy born of liberal hysteria.
But it wasn’t. And now we know it wasn’t — from the horse’s own mouth.
Trump’s Confession Changes Everything
Donald Trump has now said — proudly, publicly — that Russia would have suffered “really bad things” if not for him. Let that settle in.
Trump isn’t merely acknowledging a connection with Putin. He’s admitting that he used his power to protect Russia from consequences. To shield Putin’s regime, despite its crimes. That is not neutrality. That is complicity. That is collaboration.
In one short Truth Social post, Trump confirmed what many of us had always known: that his relationship with Putin wasn’t some paranoid fever dream — it was real. And it was damaging. And it was deliberate.
Kyle’s Role in the Cover-Up
For years, Kyle Kulinski chose to stand in the way of that truth. He made a career — made a brand — out of rejecting the idea that Trump had deep, disturbing ties to the Kremlin. He painted those who warned of Russian influence as deluded partisans, as blue-anon hysterics, as the left-wing version of QAnon.
But Kyle wasn’t playing devil’s advocate. He wasn’t raising constructive skepticism. He was helping launder a lie.
His casual mockery empowered the very forces he claims to oppose. He dismissed real intelligence findings. He trivialized the warning signs. He helped normalize the abnormal. And he did so with all the smugness of someone certain he was the only adult in the room.
But the adults were the ones sounding the alarm. The adults were the ones refusing to close their eyes. Kyle was the child with his fingers in his ears.
You Were Wrong, Kyle. Now Own It.
It wasn’t just that you disagreed, Kyle. It’s that you shamed others for seeing clearly. You accused others of hysteria when it was you who lacked the courage to confront an inconvenient reality. You framed critical voices as overreacting, while you underreacted to a geopolitical betrayal of the highest order.
You claimed to be principled. You claimed to follow the evidence. But when the evidence pointed to an ugly truth — that Trump was actively aiding a hostile authoritarian regime — you chose narrative comfort over civic responsibility.
And now that Trump has admitted what you so loudly denied, the burden is on you to make it right.
This Is About More Than One Man
This isn’t just about Trump. And it isn’t just about Kyle. It’s about the damage done when influential figures conflate skepticism with contrarianism, and confuse edginess with accuracy. Kyle used his platform not to elevate truth, but to obscure it. He cast doubt where he should have shown clarity. And in doing so, he misled thousands — maybe millions.
It is not enough to move on. Not this time. What’s needed now is humility. Accountability. A mea culpa worthy of the damage done.
Do the Right Thing
Kyle, you owe it to the people you mocked. You owe it to the truth you denied. You owe it to those who trusted your judgment and got misdirection instead. You owe it to democracy itself.
Say you were wrong. Say that your treatment of the Russia story was misguided, misinformed, and dismissive of the overwhelming evidence that was in front of you the whole time. Say you helped gaslight a public that was desperate for clarity.
Do that, and maybe we will believe that you’ve learned something. Do that, and maybe we will begin to forgive.
But until you do, the record stands: You were a tool of denial. And we will not forget.
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