Stanley Woodward, President Trump’s nominee for Associate Attorney General—the third-highest position at the Department of Justice—has direct personal ties to far-left legal activism. These ties come through his wife, Kristin McGough. She is a progressive attorney with a long track record of supporting anti-Trump protests and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Legal Activism and Litigation Against Trump
McGough built her career at activist organizations such as the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs. There, she filed litigation against the Trump administration on behalf of Black Lives Matter. One such lawsuit—filed in June 2020—challenged the clearing of violent protesters from Lafayette Square. These events followed riots that set fire to St. John’s Church and nearly breached White House security. McGough wasn’t just involved behind the scenes—she testified in court against the Trump administration in April 2023.
Public Signaling and Left-Wing Advocacy
McGough has also embraced progressive signaling, including listing her pronouns in her official legal biography. Much of her legal work has focused on advocating for undocumented immigrants and minority groups. Her efforts often promote narratives of systemic victimhood and institutional oppression.
She has publicly called for a complete overhaul of the Washington D.C. justice system. Comparing current laws to Jim Crow-era policies, she has claimed the system disproportionately harms Black residents. This rhetoric aligns with broader left-wing narratives portraying law enforcement as structurally racist—directly clashing with President Trump’s law-and-order platform.
Public Endorsement of BLM and Anti-Trump Messaging
In a 2020 video, claimed credit for painting the “Black Lives Matter” mural in front of the White House during peak nationwide unrest. She stated the mural sent a message that “our city stood with Black lives across the country.” During that same appearance, she renewed her call to reform D.C.’s justice system, once again likening it to “Jim Crow laws.”
McGough’s social media further amplified her support for BLM. In one instance, she updated her Facebook profile photo to include herself, her children, and her husband—Trump’s DOJ nominee, Stanley Woodward—with “Black Lives Matter” superimposed across the image. This public alignment suggests not only her advocacy but also Woodward’s comfort associating with a movement that actively opposed Trump’s administration. This raises concerns about ideological alignment, conflicts of interest, and vetting integrity.
Left-Wing Ties Within the Household
While Woodward has represented Trump allies in court, his personal associations and household ties suggest ideological proximity to the political Left. This calls into question whether his loyalty lies with the America First agenda or with maintaining credibility in Washington’s legal elite.
Can someone so closely tied to anti-Trump activism be trusted to serve in Trump’s DOJ?
Campaign Donations and Political Alignment
Progressive Democrat lawyer Stanley Woodward—an Obama and ActBlue donor who has never once contributed to Donald Trump—has now been nominated for Associate Attorney General. His wife, Kristin McGough, is a legal advocate for undocumented aliens and left-wing immigration causes.
Radical Activity at Lafayette Square Returns
St. John’s Church and Lafayette Square—sites previously targeted by BLM rioters—have again become hubs of radical left activity. Loomer Unleashed captured footage of a Hamas flag flown during an anti-Trump march. Additionally, open-borders group CASA bused in pro-undocumented immigrant activists for a “May Day Celebration” on May 1.
This begs the question: How can the DOJ’s third-ranking official prosecute leftist agitators impartially when his own wife supported riots at this very location?
Endorsing Biden-Era Prosecutors
McGough’s social media activity increasingly reflects anti-Trump sentiment. Just one month ago, she endorsed a LinkedIn post by Michael Romano. Romano is a former DOJ attorney who served under the Biden administration.
In the post, Romano reflected on his time prosecuting January 6 cases. He called the work “a privilege” and expressed pride in holding those defendants accountable.
Romano later told the Associated Press:
“The way that the pardons have been received by the January 6th defendants and by other right-wing extremists, as I understand it, is to recognize that if you support the president and if you commit violence in support of the president, that he might insulate you from the consequences, that he might protect you from the criminal justice system. And so that might encourage people to commit these sort of acts.”
— Michael Romano, former DOJ attorney, to the Associated Press
McGough’s endorsement of Romano’s reflections—paired with her past support for BLM and public criticism of Trump—raises serious questions. These questions pertain to the ideological worldview and loyalties surrounding Stanley Woodward. He is now nominated for one of the most powerful positions in the Justice Department.
Additional Vetting Concerns: Ashleigh Bondoc
Vetting issues don’t end with McGough. Ashleigh Bondoc, appointed as special assistant to Woodward if confirmed, has a track record of aiding criminal undocumented immigrants. Her now-private LinkedIn profile reveals she helped ICE detainees file asylum claims and complaints, and assisted criminal aliens in vacating their charges.
Bondoc’s bilingual promotion of legal services in English and Spanish further reflects a DEI-oriented, activist legal approach—one that directly conflicts with Trump’s immigration platform.
While a student at The Catholic University of America, Bondoc participated in “Diversity Career Panel Discussions,” highlighting a deeper alignment with DEI initiatives. This raises doubts about whether the Trump administration is truly rejecting DEI hiring practices.
Final Assessment
Attorney General Pam Bondi has allowed the Trump administration’s vetting crisis to reach a fever pitch. This raises serious concerns about who is being elevated to positions of power within the Department of Justice.
McGough’s public support for BLM, her alignment with far-left causes, and her vocal opposition to President Trump are not just ideological red flags—they pose a direct conflict of interest for her husband, Stanley Woodward.
Appointing someone with these entanglements to DOJ’s third-highest post threatens to undermine the Department’s integrity. It also sends the wrong message to the American people, who voted overwhelmingly for President Trump and gave Republicans a governing trifecta.
Personnel is policy—and this nomination demands immediate scrutiny.
“We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk.” — Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Marxist Black Lives Matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgEUbSzOTZ8
George Floyd and Officer Derek Chauvin were friends, doing security together at the El Nuevo Rodeo club on Lake Street…
https://www.yahoo.com/video/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-worked-151400715.html
The media has spiked the story that the two worked with each other at the club, and Derek has refused to admit the association, informing us that George is a police informant and very much alive.
That informs us of the Marxist ‘false opposition’ fake ‘conservative’ media, hand-in-hand with these false flag operations the Marxist mainstream media regurgitates, the purpose being to cement racial animosity, the ultimate purpose being the “abolition of religion”, and the destruction of those civilizations “whose spiritual aroma is religion”.*
How does a violent criminal with a record get to be doing nightclub security work with police officers? He gets the gig because the criminal is a police informer:
“The head of the Minneapolis police union says George Floyd’s “violent criminal history” needs to be remembered and that the protests over his death are the work of a “terrorist movement.”
“What is not being told is the violent criminal history of George Floyd. The media will not air this,” police union president Bob Kroll told his members in a letter posted Monday on Twitter.
Floyd had landed five years behind bars in 2009 for an assault and robbery two years earlier, and before that, had been convicted of charges ranging from theft with a firearm to drugs, the Daily Mail reported.”
CONTRADICTIONS AND HILARIOUS BACKTRACKING
El Nuevo Rodeo club owner, Maya Santamaria, caught in a lie, where in early reports she says Derek only worked outside the club, therefore Derek didn’t know George who worked inside the club, “Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open,” Santamaria said. “They were working together at the same time, it’s just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside.”
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865803157/george-floyd-and-derek-chauvin-were-co-workers-says-former-club-owner
But another club security employee, David Pinney, says Derek worked inside the club, “Derek [was] extremely aggressive within the club with some of the patrons, which was an issue.”
Maya Santamaria caught in another lie where she’s reported saying both Derek and George worked together up to the end of the year (2019), “A former club owner in south Minneapolis says the now-fired police officer and the black man who died in his custody this week both worked security for her club up to the end of last year.” But now the story has changed, where David Pinney details “several interactions he said occurred between Floyd and Chauvin, claiming the duo worked together for up to six months in late 2015 and early 2016.”
https://nypost.com/2020/06/11/co-worker-who-said-george-floyd-chauvin-bumped-heads-recants-story/
Then Maya Santamaria plants both feet into the manure, inadvertently incriminating herself as a racist enabler by allowing Derek for seventeen years to abuse Blacks, “I told him I thought this is unnecessary to be pepper-sprayed. The knee-jerk reaction of being afraid, it seemed overkill,” Santamaria said. “It was a concern and I did voice my opinion, but police officers have a way of justifying what they do.”
Naturally, of course, Maya never spoke to Derek about breaking up fights between Blacks who were fighting, but the lie has caught her as a ‘racist enabler’ in this race-based false flag drama. If Derek had been abusing anyone at the club, he would have been fired, not working at the club for seventeen years until the club closed in December 2019.
Then David Pinney took back an account that George and Derek knew each other well within the club. Why was this account changed? Because “she [Maya Santamaria] did not have a close relationship with him [George] as I did”.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-nightclub-bumped-heads-changes-story/
Huh? Pinney recants his account of both George and Derek knowing each other well, where Pinney says Derek was aggressive towards George, because Maya Santamaria did not know George well? That makes no sense, and tells us Pinney spoke off script, tripping over the truth.