DOJ official pens weird filing in White House East Wing suit

Stanley E. Woodward, Jr., the Associate Attorney General of the United States, has penned a weird filing in an ongoing lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing.

Woodward last week submitted a motion asking a federal judge to dissolve the court’s preliminary injunction blocking the demolition and construction of a ballroom at the White House.

The filing was made in a lawsuit brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation against the National Park Service. The names of Todd Blanche, the acting Attorney General who replaced Pam Bondi, and his principal associate deputy, R. Trent McCotter, were also attached to the document.

In the motion, Woodward argued that circumstances have changed following an alleged assassination attempt on Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, claiming the incident demonstrated the need for a secure, large-scale event space for the president.

Woodward’s filing leans heavily on a Secret Service declaration describing vulnerabilities at off-site venues and portrays the planned structure as an integrated, hardened facility that would mitigate those risks.

But Woodward’s motion has garnered significant attention online for the bizarre wording in it, with one social media commenter saying the “short choppy sentences read like a Paw Patrol book.”

“Will absolutely never feel inadequate as a law student, cuz girl wtf is this?????” the account @big__relly posted on Threads.

Others online pointed out that the motion appeared to have been written by Trump himself, with full up-case words that read more like a Truth Social post than a legal document.

“’The National Trust for Historic Preservation’ is a beautiful name, but even their name is FAKE because when they add the words ‘in the United States’ to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, it makes it sound like a Governmental Agency, which it is not,” Woodward wrote in the motion.

“They are very bad for our Country. They stop many projects that are worthy, and hurt many others,” Woodward continued.

Woodward then said that the National Trust for Historic Preservation suffers from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” which he said is “commonly referred to as TDS.” The phrase referenced is not a real term used in the medical or psychological fields.

He also said that the group is represented by the lawyer for “Barack Hussein Obama,” a favorite insult of Trump’s against his predecessor to equate him with terrorism, and used by Woodward in an attempt to discredit the group and its lawyer.

From there, the motion begins to sound more normal, but is still filled with weirdly partisan language from a top Justice Department official.

“It’s so bad that we can’t even blame A.I.,” another social media commenter said. “This is like when an eighth-grade teacher asks a student to write a persuasive paragraph.”

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