This is interesting. President Trump has announced that David A. Warrington will now lead the Office of the White House Counsel, as well as “Asst to the President and Counsel to the President.” It would appear that President Trump is adjusting the legal framework within the office.
Originally, President Trump announced William Joseph McGinley to serve as White House Counsel; however, he has now moved McGinley to be the legal counsel covering DOGE, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Warrington will now lead the office of White House Counsel:
Coming from the partnership firm of Harmeet Dhillon gives Suspicious Cat, well, suspicions. The notation is made, and we move along.
Below is the shift as explained by President Trump.
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The McGinley move makes a lot of sense. DOGE and the Office of Management and Budgets (OMB) are going to be joined at the hip. They are going to have to navigate the Impoundment Control Act, challenging the system that places limits on a president’s ability to unilaterally withhold funding.
Inside that legal battle, deciding what DOGE can do without legislative approval, the OMB is going to be the execution part. McGinley will be the legal liaison focused on what technical approaches DOGE/OMB can execute. In essence, can they stop funding XXXX, thereby eliminating it?
That said, the language President Trump is using to describe the role of David A. Warrington is something entirely new. Donald Trump says, “to serve as Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President. Dave will lead the Office of White House Counsel and serve as the top attorney in the White House.” Normally the White House Counsel does not represent the interests of the President, the WHC represents the interests of the office.
I would appear to me, at least as I review the details, that President Trump is now fully aware how his Presidential interests can sometimes conflict with the interests of the White House Counsel, and he is making a move to ensure that conflict doesn’t happen. An example of the conflict I have explained repeatedly in the “declassification of information.”
Not kidding, it is almost as if someone very close to President Trump – READ THIS, because it comes with a serious warning.
…[…] “In Term-1 the IC message to the WH Counsel was that if Donald Trump declassified any documents, they would use the DOJ (special counsel weapon) to attack the office of the president for “obstructing justice.” The WHC was fraught with fear over what would happen and demanded that POTUS Trump stop trying to declassify information/documents the IC didn’t support.”
The way President Trump is now portraying the role of the White House Counsel is to represent his interests first and foremost, then represent the interests of the office. In a few subtle, and not so subtle ways, this makes sense.
We can tell by the nominations to AG, DAG and DAG-NSD, that Main Justice is already positioned to defend and protect President Donald Trump. The people in charge of the silo are all loyalty-first people, aligned in the interests of President Trump. It would appear that President Trump is now bringing that same outlook into the White House. The White House Counsel aligning in purpose with the purpose of President Donald J Trump.
I’m glad to see this approach, because as I have repeatedly affirmed, ONLY PRESIDENT TRUMP the person can confront the Silo system in Washington DC.
