Ex-Bungie composer Marty O'Donnell is running for Congress with "Marty's army" and says he's voting Trump

Marty O'Donnell has had a long and successful career as a composer, but remains best-known for his near two-decade association with developer Bungie. O'Donnell was audio director and composed the music for all of Bungie's Halo games, with his final project being Destiny before things went badly south between the musician and the studio. Since his firing in 2014 O'Donnell has been involved in various legal actions against his former employer and Microsoft, some of which have gone his way and some… not so much.

O'Donnell founded Highwire Games after leaving Bungie and composed the soundtrack for its debut release, Golem, but after that seemed to have quietly retired (aside from the lawsuits). Well, it turns out that the devil will find work for idle hands to do: O'Donnell has now announced his intention to run as a Republican Party candidate for Congress in Nevada.

«I never wanted to be a politician and I still don’t,» O'Donnell begins, somewhat implausibly. «I was ready to retire and spend more time with my family–which I’ve done for the past 3 years. I think they’re ready for me to find something else to do.»

O'Donnell's announcement is lengthy and can be read in full here. He says the USA's «toxic divisions» are «tearing apart our families and society», and the economy has «gone horribly wrong.» In a colorful metaphor O'Donnell says «the goose that lays the golden eggs for our country has been kicked around and squeezed to the point where laying more golden eggs is almost impossible.»

It's the little man that gets the squeeze and O'Donnell knows who's to blame: «Big corporate executives and big union bosses. Big tech, big pharma, big media, big whatever—all trying to control big government in Washington DC.»

If this is all sounding a little familiar, then it may not surprise you to know that O'Donnell is a supporter of former president Donald Trump, who is of course once again going to be the Republican candidate in 2024 ("I have voted for President Trump twice and