Marty O’Donnell Said What???

New reporting from the Nevada Current exposes O’Donnell for joking about sexual assault, arguing that single parent households need to be “healed,” and insisting his former workplace was better “when it was a boy’s club.” The Current also reveals that, of O’Donnell’s 29 podcast guests (one of whom was a known “neo-Nazi influencer”), none have been women.

REMINDER: O’Donnell has come under fire in the past for:

• Saying he’d vote to go to war with Iran “in a heartbeat.”
• Calling abortion rights “satanic” and “death” and equating abortion to the Holocaust.
• Platforming a neo-Nazi influencer on his podcast, saying the interview was “one of those sort of marriages made in heaven,” and “dismiss[ing]” concerns that the guest who, in O’Donnell’s own words, is an alleged “fascist, nationalist, white nationalist, [and] misogynist.”
• Wanting to police women’s sex lives and stating that women who “sow their wild oats” cause societies to “collapse.”
• Calling LGBTQ+ people an “existential threat” and saying they’re part of an alliance pushing Western civilization toward an “abyss.”
• Agreeing with the false trope that LGBTQ+ people “recruit” kids and “will take your children from you.”
• Saying he’s “all for bringing back shame” while discussing Pride.
• Arguing that protections for pre-existing medical conditions, including pregnancy, cancer, and diabetes, should be “dead and gone.”
• Arguing that tariffs are not “an issue,” even though experts agree that tariffs are contributing to Southern Nevada’s sharp decline in tourism.
• Espousing that young people don’t need “jobs” or “opportunity” at the same time Nevada is facing a jobs crisis.

Read the latest reporting for yourself…

Nevada Current: Who is Marty O’Donnell?

• At a campaign office opening last weekend, O’Donnell, in audio provided to the Current, said that if elected, he would “absolutely, in a heartbeat” vote to authorize President Donald Trump’s war in Iran.
• On his podcast, O’Donnell says he wants to be part of Trump’s team “so he has a four-year presidency rather than a two-year presidency.”
• O’Donnell’s podcast, the Marty O’Donnell Show, features interviews with guests… None of his 29 guests are women. 
• In an August 2025 interview, O’Donnell introduced Dr. Charles Cornish-Dale, who he noted has been “accused of many weird — fascist, nationalist, white nationalist, misogynist, you name it — he’s been accused of everything. And of course I’m being accused of those things too, so I had to talk to him to find out what’s true and what’s not true.”
• He called the interview “one of those sort of marriages made in heaven.”
• On another episode last year, O’Donnell noted he has Swedish ancestry and attributes the good looks of some nationalities to Viking marauders, who he says were selective in their sexual assaults.
• O’Donnell went on to say the Vikings scored “double booty.”
• On his podcast last year, O’Donnell warned “We can’t be apologetic about being men and doing manly things, and having you know womanly, and you know, having families. Like, it’s like, being apologetic about that is going to cause the downfall of society.” 
• In the same episode, the candidate asserted that families led by single parents can be “healed” but are not to be celebrated.
• “You don’t celebrate broken families. You help broken families because they’re broken, and I’m just surprised that we have to be explicit about that.”
• About one-quarter of Nevada households with a child under the age of 18 are led by single parents.
• “I don’t want a dentist who’s a weirdo in my community. I want a dentist who probably has a wife and a couple kids too, right? It’s like, or a husband and a couple kids,” he asserted. “Although I’ve never actually gone to a female dentist, That’s just me. I don’t know. I’m old-fashioned. I just haven’t seen one.” 
• “Well, Bungie made better games when it was a ‘boys club’,” O’Donnell said on the Marty Army Discord platform in 2024 of the news that a former colleague had been fired for sexual harassment. “I still remember trying to erase the artists’ white boards before women came to visit.”
• O’Donnell, disguised in a Telly Savalas mask, trench coat, and leather gloves, approached [Lorraine] McLees who was cutting a piece of cake. McLees says when the unidentified figure got too close, she wielded the knife in his direction and told him to back off.
• “The Bungie Halloween party story is hilarious,” [O’Donnell] said. “Yes, the women got really creeped out but I made sure to never touch anyone, just loom.”
• According to McLees, the next day at work the women recalled their encounters with the masked O’Donnell.
• Bungie employees, she added, ”laughed about it what, 11 years ago? Same way we laugh about inappropriate pranks we did as kids—but it is no longer funny when we demonstrably do not grow tf up and learn from it.