President-elect Trump (Donald Trump) chose his personal lawyer Will Scharf as the White House staff secretary for his new administration on Saturday, November 16.
This is a low-key but crucial position, responsible for controlling the flow of documents to the President, often maintaining a close relationship with the President and distributing documents among senior White House staff for input. In this role, Scharf will determine which memoranda, briefings, and reports will be submitted to the President.
Scharf represented Trump as one of his lawyers at the Supreme Court hearings on presidential immunity and has frequently defended Trump on television.
In a statement on Saturday, Trump said, “Will is a highly skilled lawyer who will be an integral part of my White House team. He played a key role in defeating election interference and legal battles against me, including winning a historic immunity ruling at the Supreme Court.”
Scharf is the latest Trump lawyer appointed to serve in the new administration. Earlier this week, Todd Blanche, Emil Bove, and John Sauer were appointed by Trump as senior officials in the Justice Department.
Scharf is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He previously served as a policy director in the governor’s office when Eric Greitens was the governor of Missouri.
Earlier this year, Trump’s personal lawyer ran for Missouri Attorney General, but lost in the primaries to the incumbent Attorney General Andrew Bailey. Trump supported both Scharf and Bailey in the primaries.
(This article was referenced from reports by “The Hill”.)