President Donald J. Trump’s adversaries are delusional and pernicious, evidenced by JAG’s interrogation of former Pentagon cyber boss Gen. Tim Haugh, who was arrested and taken to JAG’s Pensacola, Florida, headquarters only hours after Trump fired him on April 3.
As reported, U.S. Marines apprehended Haugh at his Maryland home that evening and showed him a military arrest warrant charging him with treason and espionage. Teetering on his doorstep clutching an almost drained bottle of Jack Daniels, Haugh begrudged the Marines for refusing to drink with him before dragging him away in handcuffs. On April 27, we published an article summarizing Haugh’s crime: he and co-conspirators had planned to install a self-replicating computer virus on the PJM Interconnection power grid to cause a 30-day blackout across multiple states and hope society would condemn Trump for the ensuant chaos.
Before going to GITMO, Haugh was interrogated aggressively in Pensacola, where he uttered an alarming yet dubious proclamation, although he wouldn’t address the computer virus. He claimed the Deep State let Trump win the 2024 election knowing Trump would “fuck the country up so bad” that America would never again vote for a Republican presidential candidate.
What follows is abbreviated dialogue from Haugh’s interrogation:
Haugh: “Trump won because we let him; we could’ve installed Harris or even Biden, had we really wanted to.”
Interrogator 1: “No one’s interested in your rants, but you should be interested in saving your life. So, a confession, and naming your associates we haven’t grabbed yet, and we got most of them, might, I stress might, earn you some credit.”
Interrogator 2: “Once you get to GITMO, it’s over. Finality. It would behoove you to cooperate.”
Haugh: “I am cooperating, but you’re too damn daft, too caught up in analyzing one piece of a large puzzle. Can’t you see, everything happening is by our design, unfolding as we intend it to.”
Interrogator 2: “We’re not here to decode your cryptic psychobabble.”
Interrogator 1: “I’ll bite. You say you, I guess the Deep State, facilitated Trump’s victory. Why? Isn’t that counter to your nature?”
Haugh: “The Deep State, a colorful phrase Trump coined. What you call us really doesn’t matter at all.”
Interrogator 1: “Amuse us. How did you let him win?”
Haugh: “That cannot be revealed.”
Interrogator 2: “Enough with this horse shit. Let’s waterboard his ass.”
Interrogator 1: “Hang on. So, detainee, if you won’t tell us how you let Trump win, tell us why.”
Haugh: “That’s as clear as the nose on your face. We knew that Trump, if given a second term, would run amuck with the government, appoint inexperienced, groveling sycophants to key positions, and drive the country into ruin. Tearing babies from mothers’ arms, locking up citizens, tariff wars, antagonizing our allies, scandal after scandal. The country will tolerate only so much before calling for Trump’s head on a platter. But Trump won’t stop. He can’t help himself. By 2028, he’ll have turned the United States into a third-world dictatorship, and the outcry will be so loud no Republican will sit in the Oval Office after him. He’s the instrument of his party’s destruction. Honestly, though, we didn’t expect he’d start killing himself so quickly, but all the better.”
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