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White House Lawyer Vows to Fight ‘Tooth and Nail’ Against Dems Launching ‘Inappropriate’ Trump Probes
Kathryn WilkensNov 11th, 2026, 8:51 pmShare
White House counsel Will Scharf vowed Wednesday that the Trump administration is prepared to fight “tooth and nail” against congressional Democrats who launch what he called “inappropriate” investigations into the president and his officials.
Appearing on Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight, Scharf defended his warning letter to incoming House Oversight Chair Robert Garcia (D-CA), which suggested Democratic investigations into the administration could “cross the line into blatant criminality.”
“What we’ve seen in the last week is this explosion by new Democrat members of Congress, by existing Democrat members of Congress, and they’re talking about subpoenas and investigations for blatantly unlawful purposes,” Scharf claimed.
“I thought it was very, very important that just at the outset we set the tone,” he continued. “If there’s going to be an investigative process here, it should be a dignified, lawful investigative process.”
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Scharf went on to accuse Democrats of reviving the “lawfare” President Donald Trump faced before returning to the White House.
“I would have hoped that the Democrats would have learned a lesson from that,” he said. “The only thing they achieved was putting President Donald J. Trump back in the White House where he belongs.”
The White House lawyer insisted “the Constitution and the law are absolutely on our side” before laying out what he considered improper uses of congressional oversight.
“They can’t investigate for the purpose of inflicting pain on government officials; they can’t investigate things for their own self-aggrandizement. These are blatantly inappropriate uses of Congress’s power,” Scharf argued.
“We’re gonna see what happens in January, but we’re ready to fight tooth and nail here if that’s the road they want to go down,” he warned.
His remarks came after Garcia rejected the White House’s warning, accusing Trump of attempting to intimidate Congress ahead of Democrats taking control of both chambers in January.
“We are a co-equal branch of government and will not be deterred by baseless threats from a weaponized DOJ or from the President’s lawyers,” Garcia declared.
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig also dismissed the administration’s suggestion that Democrats’ threats of investigations could constitute criminal conduct.
“No, this is not anything even remotely close to a crime,” Honig said Wednesday.
Meet Will Scharf, Trump’s New White House Counsel Who Shares an Interesting History With the President
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Scharf served as a personal lawyer to Trump during the election interference case
Scharf, who hails from New York and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2011, has served as a federal prosecutor and a clerk for two federal judges.
When announcing Scharf’s new appointment, Trump acknowledged that the conservative lawyer had also previously represented him in “numerous cases, including at the Supreme Court.” Scharf was Trump’s personal lawyer from 2023 to 2025, as Trump faced a series of criminal and civil cases in-between his two stints in the White House.
Scharf was part of the team that put forth arguments to the Supreme Court in 2024 over whether Presidents should have immunity from prosecution for actions taken while in Office.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that Presidents have broad immunity for official acts carried out in office was a big win for Trump’s team, as it effectively dismantled the federal case against Trump amid a row over whether he illegally conspired to overturn his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden.
Scharf celebrated the ruling, calling it a “tremendous win for the Constitution” and for Trump, in a statement to the Kansas City Star. He said it had been an “honor” to represent Trump in the matter.
Scharf made an unsuccessful bid for Missouri Attorney General in 2024
After serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Missouri from 2020 to 2022, Scharf launched a bid for the Republican candidacy of Missouri’s Attorney General, going up against the incumbent Andrew Bailey in 2024.
Pointing towards the work he carried out as a federal prosecutor assigned to the Violent Crimes Unit as well as his “instrumental” role in the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court Justices, Scharf honed in on his D.C. experience as he mounted his campaign.
“I’ve put hardened criminals in prison, and I’ve put constitutional conservatives on the Supreme Court. I’m ready to fight back against the woke left and out-of-control federal government to defend our rights and liberty,” read a statement from Scharf in a campaign prospectus.
In a campaign ad, Scharf claimed that then-President Biden and his legal team were “wrecking” the American legal system and “doing everything they can to stop President Trump and the MAGA agenda.” Scharf said it was time for a Missouri Attorney General “who will return fire” as he pretended to fire a grenade launcher at boxes of depicted legal documents and evidence against Trump.
In a candidate survey, Scharf said that “fighting for President Trump” was one of the three things he wanted voters to remember about his goals for office, should he be elected.
Scharf lost the Republican primary to Bailey, receiving just 37% of the vote.
Scharf was pivotal in securing Trump’s controversial White House ballroom plans
Trump appointed Scharf as the at-large commissioner to the National Capital Planning Commission in July 2025.
The President appointed several members of his Administration to the Commission as he sought overview of the renovations to the Federal Reserve building under former Fed chair Jerome Powell.
In the position, Scharf has played a pivotal role in bringing Trump’s controversial White House ballroom plans to life.
Trump has faced widespread criticism for demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make room for the grand ballroom design.
Scharf defended the project in April, insisting “the only constant in the history of the White House is that practically every change, every modification, every addition, and indeed every feature that we now celebrate as an iconic aspect of the White House was roundly and viciously condemned in its day.”
“Any argument that relies on the idea that the White House is unchangeable or should be unchangeable flies in the face of the very history of the structure such critics claim they are trying to protect,” he added.
Despite the Commission’s arguments, the construction of the $400 million ballroom—a space Trump insists is essential for security purposes—continues to face legal challenges.
A federal appeals court on Aug. 7 ruled that the construction of the ballroom could not continue without congressional authorization. Trump has said he intends to appeal the matter to the Supreme Court.
https://time.com/article/2026/08/10/will-scharf-new-white-house-counsel-trump-lawyer-history/
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