Trump lawyer William Owen Scharf picked for 'crucial' White House assistant role

President-elect Trump announced that William Owen Scharf, 1 of his lawyers, volition service arsenic adjunct to the president and unit caput successful the upcoming administration.

"I americium pleased to denote that William Owen Scharf volition service arsenic Assistant to the President and White House Staff Secretary," Trump's connection read. "Will is simply a highly skilled lawyer who volition beryllium a important portion of my White House team."

The Republican person added that Scharf, a erstwhile national prosecutor, "has played a cardinal relation successful defeating the Election Interference and Lawfare waged against me, including by winning the Historic Immunity Decision successful the Supreme Court."

"Will is going to marque america arrogant arsenic we Make America Great Again," Trump added.

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Will Scharf, lawyer for erstwhile President Donald Trump speaks during a quality league astatine Trump Tower successful New York City, Sept. 6. (Cheney Orr/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Scharf, who received an undergraduate grade from Princeton University and a instrumentality grade from Harvard University, has clerked for 2 national appeals tribunal judges. 

The erstwhile authoritative was besides employed by CRC Advisors, a blimpish nationalist relations firm, and has besides worked for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. Scharf besides worked arsenic an adjunct U.S. Attorney successful St. Louis. 

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William Owen Scharf volition service arsenic adjunct to the president and unit caput successful the upcoming Trump administration. (Tammy Ljungblad/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

The lawyer precocious ran for Missouri lawyer general, but mislaid successful the Republican superior to incumbent Andrew Bailey. Bailey won against Democrat Elad Gross earlier successful November. 

Trump posted astir Scharf's assignment soon earlier helium announced his prime for caput of energy, Chris Wright, connected Saturday night.

President-elect Donald Trump listens during a gala astatine his Mar-a-Lago estate, Thursday, successful Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Wright, the CEO of Liberty Energy, "was 1 of the pioneers who helped motorboat the American Shale Revolution that fueled American Energy Independence, and transformed the Global Energy Markets and Geopolitics," Trump wrote.

Fox News Digital's Brooke Singman contributed to this report.