{"id":77216,"date":"2026-08-10T11:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/trump-announces-aide-will-soon-step-into-white-house-counsel-post\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:56:18","slug":"trump-announces-aide-will-soon-step-into-white-house-counsel-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/trump-announces-aide-will-soon-step-into-white-house-counsel-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces aide will soon step into White House counsel post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump<\/a> announced in a Sunday Truth Social post that assistant to the president and White House staff secretary Will Scharf will soon serve as White House counsel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is my Great Honor to announce that, effective September 1st, Will Scharf will become Assistant to the President and White House Counsel, replacing a man, David Warrington, who has done a truly outstanding job as White House Counsel and, before that, for my Presidential Campaign. David will be going on to the Private Sector,&#8221; Trump said in the <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117067668006565228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will has done an amazing job in his current role as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House<\/a> Staff Secretary, and has also served as Chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission. I know Will well! He previously represented me in numerous cases, including at the Supreme Court, during the Biden Administration\u2019s corrupt and illegal campaign of Weaponization,&#8221; the president continued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/blanche-survives-republican-defectors-trump-gets-new-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>BLANCHE SURVIVES REPUBLICAN DEFECTORS AS TRUMP GETS HIS NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He also previously served as a Federal Prosecutor, worked as an attorney in private practice, clerked for two Federal Appeals Court Judges, and was a top student at both Princeton University, and Harvard Law School. Will is Tough, Strong, and Smart! He also loves our Country, and respects the Law. Will Scharf will do a great job as White House Counsel!&#8221; Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Scharf is the man who has sometimes been seen handing the president binders documents to sign and explaining the purpose of each item.<\/p>\n<p>White House chief of staff Susie Wiles congratulated Scharf in a post on X, which White House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/category\/person\/karoline-leavitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karoline Leavitt<\/a> retweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Warmest congratulations to Will Scharf as he will soon take the helm as White House Counsel. There is so much winning ahead!&#8221; Wiles wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-praises-susie-wiles-cancer-fight-surprise-gala-video-winning-decisively\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TRUMP PRAISES SUSIE WILES&#8217; CANCER FIGHT IN SURPRISE GALA VIDEO: &#8216;WINNING IT DECISIVELY&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And to my friend Dave Warrington: thank you for your tenure as White House Counsel, Trump-Vance campaign counsel, and President Trump\u2019s loyal attorney. The White House Counsel\u2019s Office helped deliver 24 Supreme Court victories and the confirmation of 54 judges. And much more. I can\u2019t wait to see what\u2019s next for you. It will most certainly be fantastic!&#8221; Wiles added.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentator Josh Hammer, who in 2023 announced that he and Scharf had co-founded &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/we-are-jews-against-soros-opinion-1805473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jews Against Soros<\/a>,&#8221; told Fox News Digital during a Monday phone call that he thought Trump &#8220;hit a grand slam home run with&#8221; Scharf, who will be a &#8220;tremendous boon to the White House counsel&#8217;s office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-lawyer-william-owen-scharf-picked-crucial-white-house-assistant-role\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TRUMP LAWYER WILLIAM OWEN SCHARF PICKED FOR &#8216;CRUCIAL&#8217; WHITE HOUSE ASSISTANT ROLE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/h\/josh-hammer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hammer indicated<\/a> that they did not really have the time to develop the Jews Against Soros effort, but said that he and Scharf were &#8220;fed up with the idea that&#8221; criticism of left-wing political megadonor George Soros represents &#8220;a dog whistle for antisemitism,&#8221; while Soros, Hammer asserted, funds &#8220;a ton of antisemitism and anti-Israel activity worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump announced in a Sunday Truth Social post that assistant to the president and White House staff secretary Will Scharf will soon serve as White House counsel. &#8220;It is my Great Honor to announce that, effective September 1st, Will Scharf will become Assistant to the President and White House Counsel, replacing a man, &#8230; <a title=\"Trump announces aide will soon step into White House counsel post\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/trump-announces-aide-will-soon-step-into-white-house-counsel-post\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump announces aide will soon step into White House counsel post\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}