Donald Trump had just signed five executive orders on Air Force One when he flew home from Miami when he handed over the procedure to the employees of the White House to give traveling journalists an overview of their content.
And as Will Scharf, 38, was in the Gangway, details of a memo to establish a rocket shield of Iron dome over the United States, something happened that reveals.
The president leaned to his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, and whispered, “He is very good.”
“He is a star,” she replied.
If Trump is the most important attraction, the supreme commander and the leading man of the White House, he has found his sidekick in a modest former public prosecutor and Missouri attorney general candidate.
Scharf's predecessors in the role have done their work in the dark and shuffled papers behind the scenes. But he is put into the spotlight and appears next to the determined desk in the Oval Office when Trump signs orders.
As a Kamerlain at a Royal Court, Trump used him to announce every learning -related executive order before it is placed on the desk for the ceremonial squiggle of his Sharpie
It started in spontaneous style on the inauguration day when the president made it to an MC for a rally -mixing: “Why don't you say what I sign?”
Will Scharf, Secretary of the White House, Secretary Reporters on Air Force One about the newest executive orders from the president while Donald Trump watches watches
The president made clear his appreciation: “He is very good,” he whispered to Karoline Leavitt, his press secretary, while standing in the tight gangway
And since then he has become a key character in the second season of the Trump show.
When Trump left through the country for his first trip, Scharf stood by his side at every step and came to the president when they appeared in the press cabin to announce those new executive orders.
It marks an extraordinary moment in the spotlight for a withheld lawyer who came up by Trump World without the flashy exuberance of other assistants.
The role of the personnel secretary is to manage the newspapers that the president must see, coordinating the preparation of memos and explanations while moving through the White House.
It gives Scharf an overview of every step of policy formulation. And sometimes it has been a springboard to the top of the legal ladder – the politicians and lawyers who have held the position, are Brett Kavanaugh, the future Supreme Court Justice under President George W. Bush.
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the role 'flowed the newspaper', making it one of the most important but subordinate jobs in building,
“Will Scharf is an exceptionally intelligent, respectful team player who is warmly dedicated to do what is good for the president and for the team,” she told DailyMail.com.
'Everyone who knows that Will Scharf loves Will Scharf, including me. He is beautifully proven in his work. '
Scharf, 38, is a follower of the English Premier League team Wolverhampton Wanderers
He is now a usual face when Trump signs executive orders
Scharf has been a familiar face at Trump events for the past two years … if you knew where to look.
He could be seen behind the scenes at press conferences at Trump Tower and the Bedminster Golf Club of the President in New Jersey, a sign that the former Federal Public Prosecutor played an increasingly important role in Trump's legal team.
Yet it would also be easy to miss him while he was preparing himself in the background.
His modest attitude corresponds to his English Premier League team.
Not for him the glamor of a Manchester City or Chelsea. Instead, he follows the Workman -like Wolverhampton Wanderers, the legacy of a year who lived in the United Kingdom when he was eight with his English mother and father who worked in the steel industry.
An alumnus from Princeton and Harvard Law School, he cut his political teeth with Eric Greitens, when he won the race to become Governor of Missouri in 2016.
During the first Trump government he worked on the confirmations of the Supreme Court of Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
And in 2023 he launched his own political career and announced a run for attorney general of Missouri. However, he lost to the Republican established operator.
Around that time he and the Newsweek senior editor Josh Hammer 'Jews against Soros' together and focused on democratic donor and philanthropist George Soros. A favorite target of conservatives, part of their goal was to show that their criticism was not based on anti -Semitism.
“Why don't you say what I sign?” – how it all started on the inauguration day
From there he joined the legal team of Trump and worked on elements of the New York Hush Money Case and the presidential immunity question.
“Will is a very competent lawyer who will be a crucial part of my team of the White House,” Trump said when he tapped him for the role in November.
“He played a key role in beating the election interference and Lawfare that was led against me, also by winning the historical immunity decision in the Supreme Court.”
On Sunday, while the president flew at Air Force One to the Super Bowl in New Orleans, the president signed a proclamation that declared on 9 February as “Gulf of America Day.”
He invited the press in the presidential cabin to witness the moment.
Viewers with eagle eyes will have noticed that Scharf was not on his side for once and handed the binder. The personnel secretary had given up his place on the trip, so that another member of his team could enjoy the Super Bowl.
