Trump's Shady Lawyer Rewarded With Top White House Counsel Job

pretty abysmal. But it's the havoc that is wreaked along the way, right? It is the destruction of values, norms, rule of law, institutions that happens along the way. And it's the rebuild that we're left and that we're stuck with when these assholes are out of power. So Will Scharf will be advising the president and White House staff. That's also an important and there. It's not just him in the ear of Trump. It's him also directing White House staff on legal issues, including And importantly, executive orders. And we've seen what felon Trump does with executive orders. They are whatever the hell he wants them to be. A reminder, they're not the law. But then we also see law being promulgated or pushed or pursued or policies being pursued, right, by cabinet members and other people in this administration because of a Trump EO executive order. Sharf will also advise Trump and White House staff on vetoes and other aspects of prospective legislation. Now, currently, Will Scharf serves as a secretary. He is just a staff secretary. And if he looks familiar, you wouldn't be able to pick him out of a lineup, per se. But he looks familiar to all of you because he's that guy who's constantly lurking. lurking, lurking behind Donald Trump in the Oval Office. He's the one who hands over and makes these big grand announcements about this is what I'm handing you to sign, sir, all this other stuff. It's the whole lick. Yeah, I can't say that in polite company. All righty. So I said that Will Scharf served as personal counsel to felon Trump, and he did. He served as personal counsel on Trump's legal team that was led by John Sauer that went to the Supreme Court on the immunity case, that Trump immunity case, one of the worst decisions in the 21st century to come out of the Supreme Court of the United States, one of the biggest blights and stains, the grotesque asterisk on the tenure of Chief Justice John Roberts. In addition, Sharf served on the appellate team, also led by John Sauer, that failed to fight the appeal. by my dear friend and valiant and courageous defender of women's rights, E. Jean Carroll. So there is definitely a history of passing purity and loyalty tests by Will Sharf that I know Donald Trump has been clocking by now. So Sharf was Trump's personal lawyer from 2023 to 2025. But during that time, Sharf decided that he wanted to parlay his work as personal loyal for Trump into some type of campaign. campaign kind of asset when he ran for Attorney General for the state of Missouri in 2024. Now, I'm going to take a trip down memory lane a little bit here because I think it's worthwhile noting that I dug up some reporting about Will Scharf when he was over at Princeton University, and this is from the Daily Princetonian. And according to the Daily Princetonian... Will Sharf attended that school, and he was a major, he majored in history at Princeton, was the president of the Charter Club and the Inner Club Council. Charged in February of 2008 for serving alcohol to minors and maintaining a nuisance in his senior year. The charges were later dismissed, and Sharf's lawyer wrote that Sharf was going to sue the borough for false arrest, malicious prosecution, and federal civil rights claims. Eventually, lawsuit never happened. But isn't it interesting?

Sharf unsuccessfully ran for undergraduate student government president in 2005, claiming that he represented the average angry student on campus, the student who's not happy with the way things are on campus, the student who thinks the undergraduate student government is not representing him or her, the student who thinks the administration is doing a horrible job. He lost. He lost. He also was going to run for USG vice president, but decided against doing so. Active and conservative circles on campus, he wrote for the Princeton Tory and was the press secretary for the college Republicans. And then when he graduated, he ended up going to Harvard for law school. And when he was at Harvard Law, he actually was the head of the Harvard Federalist Society when he was there. Let's talk about his unsuccessful run to be the Attorney General for Missouri in 2024. So he was serving as an assistant United States attorney in the Eastern District from 2020 to 2022. And then he ended up eventually running to be the AG in Missouri and he lost in 2024. Let's talk about his career as an assistant United States attorney because I think that's very important. So the St. Louis Riverfront Times has an back in 2023 that talks about Sharf running as an outsider to come and clean things up and to bring new direction as the Attorney General. And according to the St. Louis Riverfront Times, Sharf really leaned heavily into his bona fides as a conservative. And he says that he was going to win this race by bringing together conservatives. Conservatives who were willing to stand up for what's right, blah, blah, blah, conservatives, conservatives, conservatives. And he also said that he worked on the confirmations for justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. He claims that. Will Sharf claims that he helped Brett Kavanaugh, quote, beat the smears. And then he helped Amy Coney Barrett get across the finish line for their nominations and confirmations. Will Scharf also during a campaign kickoff, name dropping, Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump. I just want to put that into perspective, not like you all need it. But if those are the names that you're name dropping and if that's what you think give you the qualifications to serve as an attorney general of a state, you really don't know what that job entails. But this article is great because what happened was, This journalist went and spoke to federal prosecutors that worked with Will Sharf at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Missouri. And Sharf, interestingly posted on Twitter, an 11 tweet thread.

in Thanksgiving of 2022, quote, things I learned working as an assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting violent crimes in St. Louis America's murder capital. And then he went on to say all these things as a federal prosecutor and that pretty much were parroting GOP talking points, right? Like pro police, you know, hold the blue line and cracking down on fentanyl from China and all sorts of other kind of, you know, culture wars type of rhetoric. And then he ends up going on newsmax. He ends up doing all like, you know, the bullshit conservative outlet media outlet tours. And by the end of the month of November of 2022, he said, I'm running for statewide office. Because, you know, they all think that that gives them some qualifications to be a politician because you happen to go on conservative cable news and you talk about, you know, culture wars and, you know, other horrific rhetoric and narratives. Okay, so here's the deal, though. One assistant U.S. attorney who worked with Well Sharf, when he heard about Sharf saying he was going to run for statewide office, said that that news was met with a, quote, collective eye roll. Listen to this quote. current assistant U.S. attorney, at least back in 2023, who had worked with Sharf. Sharf talks about things he's learned prosecuting violent crime in America's murder capital. But I'm not aware of a single murderer that he prosecuted in America's murder capital. Could Will Sharf had exaggerated his professional experience? Sharf joined the U.S. attorney's office in 2020 and his political ambitions were apparent from day one. And the perception that the job was merely a stepping stone rubbed some people the wrong way. Assistant U.S. Attorney here says, quote, Sharf had been a prosecutor for a little over five minutes, and he's talking about Missouri AG. He came into the job with no prosecutorial experience and mostly handled get your feet wet type of cases during his brief to your tenure as a federal prosecutor. Court records reflecting that Sharf handled about 150 cases, a little more than half were for gun possession, with the far most common charge being felon in possession of a firearm. Another 15 involved gun possession charges. The remaining cases were against people accused of robbery and kidnapping dealing fentanyl or crack or had escaped from halfway houses. This is the quote. None of the cases Sharf prosecuted, much less made an appearance in involved a murder charge, end quote. Sounds like Will Sharf, again, trying to act like he's some tough, conservative federal prosecutor, exaggerated. exaggerated the types of cases that he had prosecuted. Now, Sharf also saying that he was some outsider, you know, and I know all about being an outsider into the world of politics because, you know, you want to have fresh blood, all this other good stuff. Here's another reflection of his loyalty to his own ambition. Sharf comes from an elite... Missouri family. Father worked in private equity, and he himself, as in Will Sharf, went to an exclusive, incredibly expensive boarding school in Andover called Phillips Academy. For those of you who know, it is expensive and hard to get into. He then went to Princeton for undergrad Harvard Law School, where, as I mentioned a few minutes ago, he was the president of the Harvard Federalist Society. And then in January of 2023, he donated half a million dollars, $500,000 to his own campaign to run as Attorney General for the

state of Missouri. Now in, um, Eventually, as we know, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, they had been nominated. So back in 2016, so Will Scharf had worked on those confirmations. And then this is what this AUSA told this journalist in the St. Louis River Front Times. In March of 2020, the position for its Scharf would be hired hadn't even been posted, but a monthly office birthday email went out and Sharf's name was among the recipients. Quote, you know you got fucking juice if the job isn't even posted and you're already on the office birthday list. Sharf has leaned hard into rural Missouri culture. It kind of reminds you of, I don't know, like JD Vance. This idea of, yeah, I don't, I spurn the bi-coastal elite and I am not an elitist and I'm leaning into being such a rural guy. Very JD Vance, right? Very like, you know, hillbilly elegy energy coming from Will Scharf here. But Will Scharf likes to drive a pickup truck and wear cowboy boots, but a Missouri Republican consultant saying, in this 2023 article where I have a problem is trying to rebrand yourself, as in Will Sharf, into some warrior for the common person when you are the son of a multi-millionaire. I mean, that's the type of anecdotes that we are hearing about Will Sharf, staff secretary who now becomes the new White House lawyer. A couple of other things. He's also a... This is kind of interesting. So... He joined the White House as staff secretary last year in 2025. When, if you'll recall, right out of the gate, Donald Trump issued those executive orders that were going after big law international white glove white shoe law firms that all ended up bending the knee except for four that fought the good fight and continue to do so. So it turns out Will Sharf, it was involved in negotiating the White House's deal with Paul Bari Weiss Wifkin, as you know, that was led at the time by Brad Karp, who was, you know, in the Epstein files. And Paul Bari Weiss set the tone for all of these big law law firms to bend the knee and kiss Donald Trump's ass. And that was something that Will Sharf worked on last year. And so Will Sharf has definitely had his hands on a number of different things. Now, look, I will begrudgingly say that a lot of people are talking about the fact that Will Sharf on a couple of occasions has issued kind of memorandum to the Oval Office stating things like you cannot invoke the Insurrection Act and you cannot end habeas corpus for immigrants. Yeah, I guess. What I don't appreciate is this. I don't appreciate people looking at those two examples and saying, well, look, that means that Will Scharf is reasonable and he's a decent guy. No, that's not what it means. We should stop applauding lawyers and others in this Trump regime that actually...

They're in couch is, quote, doing the right thing. And yet they're not doing the right thing. They're doing the thing. The rule of law, the cases, the rules of procedure, they all say that you can't do this, that Trump cannot do these things. So why are people like Will Scharf being lauded for issuing confidential internal memoranda that just say that this is the law? I don't think that we should be giving people credit where credit is not due. It is. I've had the same argument when I've said, I don't understand why Democrats are asking for people to, I don't know, abide by the Constitution when you have warrantless entry into a home in enforcement of immigration tactics. I mean, that's the law. So, no, we shouldn't be asking for things that are the law. We should just be insisting that these things are followed. So Will Scharf, in a couple of examples, habeas corpus and an insurrection act. I don't know. They're using this as some people are looking at this. Like, oh, look, this is an example of Wolf Sharp being, you know, a good guy or normal. No, it's not. And here's the other thing. Sharf has served as the chair of the National Capital Planning Commission. So that shitty East Wing ballroom destruction and that insanity over the ballroom that has now been stopped by an appellate court, a federal appeals court on August 7th. And that shitty Arc D, no triumph for Felon Trump. These things, these things are a Will Sharf specialty. So please, please stop telling me that Wolf is doing anything but what Felon Trump wants him to do. End of story. But Will Sharf, he's doing what is ambitiously good for him as well. Stepping stone that this job will be, I don't think he has the legal competency experience to do this job. I think we are about to hit a freaking huge roadblock when it comes to any progress that we've made with this regime whatsoever because you will not be getting good counsel from Will Sharf to the president. That is my opinion. And that is just based upon the collective information that I have seen and that I have heard. And at this time, what we can continue to do is we can continue to like and subscribe on this episode. Share it far and wide. Let people know what the history is for this guy Will Scharf because, yeah, once again, another personal lawyer for Donald Trump gets a cushy job in this regime and one where they have the direct ear of the president and they're going to be telling him what he wants to hear. Because like Todd Blanche, Attorney General, and like John Sauer, Solicitor General, nobody is sitting there telling Trump what he doesn't want to hear everybody sitting there telling him everything that they can do to make his crappy, unconstitutional, illegal, horrific, autocratic, dictatorial policies become a reality. Be mad, be outraged, demand accountability, and I'm off to rattle more people's damn cages. Katie Fang here. We launched the Katie Fang News Channel in partnership with the Midas Touch Network so we could bring you the latest in legal and political news. Straight, no chaser. So if you're a fellow truth teller, hit that subscribe button and share the word about this channel so we can build a high information America together.