No, You Aren’t Going Crazy—The Gaslighting Is Here
- john raymond
- May 29
- 3 min read
If you’re feeling disoriented right now—like the world has turned upside down, like everyone suddenly forgot what just happened, like people are trying to rewrite the last ten years of American political life—you’re not crazy. The gaslighting is real. And it’s reaching its next, more dangerous phase.
You’re not imagining it: the very people who once screeched “witch hunt!” and “Russia hoax!” are now telling you that Trump’s relationship with Russia was no big deal. They’re not denying it anymore. They’re reframing it. They’re telling you: sure, he was close with Putin—but that wasn’t the problem. They’re trying to convince you that everything you saw, everything you knew, everything that felt wrong and dangerous and disloyal at the time...was actually reasonable. Maybe even patriotic.
This is psychological warfare. It’s an attempt to make you forget not just the facts, but your own memory of feeling the facts. To forget that, yes, it was a scandal that Trump refused to impose sanctions on Russia. That he attacked our allies while praising dictators. That he parroted Kremlin propaganda. That he shielded Putin from consequences—again and again, from Helsinki to Afghanistan to Ukraine.
They want you to forget that when it came out that the Kremlin was paying bounties for the deaths of American service members, Trump’s response wasn’t outrage—it was silence. No retaliation. No sanctions. No condemnation. They want you to forget that Trump protected Putin then, just like he’s doing now.
They want you to forget that every key figure in Trump’s 2016 campaign had shady or documented ties to Russian interests. That his family repeatedly lied about meetings, real estate deals, and financial entanglements with Russian oligarchs. That Trump himself said: “Russia, if you’re listening…” That they all worked to cover up the money. That they attacked journalists and lawmakers who pointed out the connections. That they sued people just for telling the truth.
They want you to forget that Trump built his empire with Russian money, laundered through luxury properties and opaque business shells. That Deutsche Bank, long under investigation for Russian money-laundering, was his lender of last resort. That Trump and his sons raged against any suggestion their business was compromised by Russia because they knew it was.
They want you to forget that Trump was impeached for extorting Ukraine, to help Putin. That his first impeachment was a direct result of trying to weaken a nation already under attack by Russia. That he dangled military aid in exchange for political favors—and then called it “perfect.”
They want you to forget that when the walls were closing in, they launched John Durham to launder the truth. They tried to turn the real investigation into a fake scandal. They weaponized the DOJ to confuse you. And now, they’re trying to tell you that all of it—every meeting, every lie, every act of defiance against America’s interests—was just politics. Just hard-nosed diplomacy.
They want you to forget because they knew it was wrong when they did it. They fought tooth and nail to hide those connections. They called it fake news. They said “deep state.” They claimed victimhood. Why? Because they knew that if people believed what was obviously true, it would all collapse.
And now, they want to pretend that they never denied it. That it was always okay. That a little coziness with Russia is just normal statecraft. That it’s “diplomacy.” That it was “overblown.”
It wasn’t overblown. It was betrayal. It wasn’t a hoax. It was the cover-up. It wasn’t diplomacy. It was deference. It was Trump being a Russian asset, plain and simple.
You are not crazy for remembering. You are not hysterical for insisting it mattered. You are not overreacting when you see the same patterns repeating. They are the ones gaslighting you. Because the truth is radioactive, and the only way they survive it is if you stop trusting your own memory.
But you were right. You saw it when it happened. You were right to call it out. And you’re right to call it out again now.
Remember how hard they pushed back. Remember how fiercely they denied it. Remember how angry they were when people connected the dots.
That rage? That wasn’t confusion. That was guilt. That was fear. That was the panic of people caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
Don’t let them say it was okay to steal the cookie now. It wasn’t okay. It was never okay. And it will never be okay.
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