WASHINGTON — People who watched Donald Trump’s inaugural proceedings on Monday might have noticed a familiar face at Trump’s right hand.
Attorney Will Scharf, who came home to Missouri last year to run for attorney general, is back in Washington and serving as a White House lawyer.
He was there Monday night, when Trump signed orders on matters ranging from pardons for January 6th rioters to changing the name of a mountain in Washington to requiring federal workers to return to full-time, in-person work immediately.
Scharf spent a lot of his professional career in the nation’s capital, doing legal work and dispensing political advice for the President of the United States.
Most Missouri residents will recognize Scharf from his unsuccessful GOP primary campaign last year to unseat Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
Some will remember Scharf working first for the Catherine Hanaway 2016 gubernatorial campaign.
He then worked in the office of Governor Eric Greitens before Greitens was driven from Jefferson City by a sex and money scandal…
The Harvard Law grad worked next as a federal prosecutor in St. Louis before going to work for a political consulting firm that managed the confirmations of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett for the United States Supreme Court.
In October of 2023, Scharf joined Trump’s legal team.
He worked on several court cases against the embattled re-election candidate, including the appeal of his gag orders, the appeal of Trump’s civil fraud trial, and the presidential immunity case.
He was most visible, however, during the so-called hush money case, which Scharf insisted was merely a business records trial.
It likely was the legal team’s success in the Supreme Court ruling on immunity that opened up a spot for Scharf in the new Trump White House.
“It’s one of the great honors of my life to be on President Trump’s legal team,” said Scharf.
“I think what the Biden Administration and their allies are doing in terms of using the courts, using legal processes to interfere in the 2024 election is a tremendous attack on our constitutional system of government and on the very foundations of our republic.”
Will Scharf’s official title is Assistant to the President and White House Staff Secretary.
Trump hired Scharf back after he won the 2024 election.
A statement from Trump said, “Will is a highly skilled attorney who will be a crucial part of my White House team.”
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