Trump Announces Additions to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’s Team

Attorney Stanley Woodward will serve as assistant to the president and senior counselor.

President-elect Donald Trump announced a number of additions to his incoming White House team on Saturday.

Trump’s transition team said in a statement that attorney Stanley Woodward, Robert Gabriel Jr., Nicholas Luna, and William “Beau” Harrison will join the White House, to be led by Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

Attorney Stanley Woodward will serve as assistant to the president and senior counselor.

Woodward, co-founder of Brand Woodward Law, LP, based in Washington, has represented several of the incoming president’s associates and top aides—including adviser Dan Scavino, trade adviser Peter Navarro, and aide Waltine Nauta in the Department of Justice’s classified documents case—as well as people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol, including Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs.

The Trump campaign also noted Woodward’s previous work at a multinational law firm where he represented multiple international corporations in defense of alleged violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Woodward is also the recipient of the D.C. Bar’s Laura N. Rinaldi Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year award for leading his firm’s work in providing tenants facing eviction legal counsel. He earned his Juris Doctor from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.

Three other additions are former aides from the first Trump administration.

Former Fox News associate producer for “The Ingraham Angle,” Robert Gabriel Jr. will return to the White House as assistant to the president for policy. The economics graduate and former Department of Defense consultant campaigned for Trump to get elected in 2016, and then went on to serve in multiple roles throughout the first Trump admin, chiefly as policy advisor in the West Wing. He later advised the Save America Leadership PAC, the statement said, and “helped transform the Mar-a-Lago political operation into a national presidential campaign apparatus.”

Former director of Oval Office Operations Nicholas Luna has been appointed to the senior White House role of deputy chief of staff for strategic implementation, in which he will oversee presidential scheduling and outreach and communications to ensure that they are “aligned with the administration’s short- and long-term objectives,” the statement said.

Luna will be responsible for setting the tone of the Trump White House’s public-facing messaging and events.

He served in multiple positions in the first Trump White House, including as the president’s personal aide, and most recently was director of operations for Vice President-elect JD Vance.

William “Beau” Harrison, a recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, has been reappointed assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for operations. In his role, he executed dozens of complex international visits, including the historic summit in Singapore between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Harrison recently worked as a director at Command Group.

Trump is scheduled to take office on Jan. 20.

Reuters contributed to this report.