On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that Will Scharf, the current White House staff secretary, will become White House counsel on Sept. 1, replacing David Warrington, who, according to the president, will be moving into the private sector. Scharf is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, a former federal prosecutor and even a 2024 GOP primary challenger to Missouri’s then-attorney general. In addition to serving as White House staff secretary, he is chair of the National Capital Planning Commission, in which capacity he publicly disclaimed the commission’s authority to prevent Trump’s demolition of the East Wing. But his most important credential, in Trump’s eyes, might be the one he shares with the two other top law men in Trump’s orbit, Solicitor General D. John Sauer and newly minted Attorney General Todd Blanche: They all served as personal attorney to Donald J. Trump. “Given this unprecedented campaign of lawfare against President Trump, we need people willing and able to fight back,” he told KMBC 9.