Like Paul Harvey: The Rest of the Story...
- john raymond
- 1 day ago
- 3 min read
You know the headlines. You’ve heard the soundbites. You’ve seen the panels and the pressers and the polished pretense of seriousness from news anchors pretending to do journalism. You’ve been told the story: Trump lies, Trump rants, Trump says crazy things—again. You’ve been led to believe that this is the whole of it. But it’s not.
Now—like Paul Harvey used to say—here is the rest of the story.
Donald Trump is not just a liar. He is not just a narcissist. He is not just corrupt, incompetent, or chaotic. He is something far more dangerous, and far more deliberate: he is a long-term asset of a hostile foreign regime. Bought, cultivated, leveraged, and deployed. He is the perfect weapon in an asymmetric war against the West. And most of the media still refuses to say so out loud.
They pretend it’s complicated. They pretend it’s partisan. They pretend it’s unknowable. But it’s not. It’s all there. The oligarch money laundering through his properties. The Deutsche Bank loans underwritten by Russian capital. The foreign policy shifts that align perfectly with Kremlin goals. The long, humiliating history of public deference to Vladimir Putin. The pattern is obvious to anyone who actually looks.
But that’s the problem. Too many don’t look. Too many won’t.
Because telling the rest of the story would require indicting not just Trump, but the entire media and political culture that has enabled him. It would require admitting that years of “neutral” coverage, bothsides framing, scandal-of-the-week fatigue, and “we report, you decide” cowardice have created an environment where lies fester and truth is optional.
It would mean admitting that January 6th was not the end of something—but the continuation of a campaign to destroy American democracy from the inside. It would mean admitting that we aren’t just dealing with a deranged president, but with an active operation: a man still working, openly, to complete the Russian project of destabilization. And most people don’t want to admit that. It feels too big. Too scary. Too final.
So instead, they focus on the noise. On what he said about a judge. On his latest “truth” social tantrum. They cover Trump’s behavior without ever covering Trump’s purpose. They poorly analyze his words, and never his mission. They see the tree, never the forest. They refuse to finish the story.
And what does that leave us with?It leaves us with people like Jake Tapper pretending they're journalists while treating a foreign asset as just another Republican candidate. It leaves us with Kyle Kulinski and others dismissing “Russiagate” as liberal paranoia without ever confronting the actual intelligence, the financial trail, or the geopolitical results. It leaves us with citizens misinformed, misdirected, and ultimately unprepared.
Because the truth is, Trump doesn’t need to look smart to win the war. He’s already moved the lines. He’s already destabilized faith in institutions. He’s already made truth a matter of opinion. He’s already forced the press to doubt itself and its purpose.
And still they don’t get it. Because they don’t want to.
To admit the rest of the story would be to admit failure—of the press, of the pundits, of the Democratic establishment, of the Republican collapse, of the culture that insists every story needs to be told “from both sides,” even when one of those sides is sabotage.
Trump didn’t just hijack America. People left the keys in the car, then acted surprised when it was driven off a cliff.
So here it is, plainly:Trump is working for Russia. Putin is waging war on the West. And the American media has been outplayed.
That’s not a take. Because, now you know the rest of the story.