The resignation came less than an hour after the Trump transition and House Armed Services Committee exclusively told Breitbart News they condemned her political opinions as woke and incompatible with the incoming Trump administration.
“Shelly O’Neill Stoneman is no longer with the company, having resigned for personal reasons,” a Lockheed spokesperson told Breitbart News.
“As we did in his first term, we look forward to a strong working relationship with President Trump, his team, and the new Congress to strengthen our national defense,” the statement read. “We share a commitment to achieving peace through strength and are focused on building mission critical defense technology our adversaries cannot match.”
Breitbart News asked Lockheed if it was concerned about Stoneman’s woke opinions and whether it plans to reorient its government affairs department toward the Trump administration.
Stoneman publicly endorsed a long list of woke agenda items on X. She supported transgender people serving in the military, shared a quote from Vox claiming that “Being anti-racist is a journey,” alleged January 6, 2021, was an “insurrection,” and also appeared to believe that diversity makes the nation stronger, for which she offered no evidence.
“The posts were made prior to her employment with the company, which began in August 2023,” a Lockheed Martin spokesperson told Breitbart News.
Stoneman apparently deleted her X account on Friday after Breitbart News initially requested comment about her woke agenda.
“THE PURGE BEGINS,” Politico Playbook reported Tuesday morning. “After Breitbart reported on SHELLY O’NEILL STONEMAN, Lockheed Martin’s SVP of government affairs, having posted progressive political opinions online, the company told Breitbart that she’d resigned.”
Lockheed appears to want a strong working relationship with the incoming Trump administration and Congress. The House Armed Services Committee holds jurisdiction over the procurement of weapons that Lockheed Martin often supplies to the Department of Defense.
Lockheed spent $9,508,940 in 2024 on lobbying lawmakers, according to OpenSecrets.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former RNC War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.
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