President-elect Donald Trump selected St. Louis-based attorney William Owen Scharf to be the assistant to the president and the White House staff secretary on Saturday.

In a statement from the Trump-Vance transition team, Trump said Scharf is a “highly-skilled attorney” who “has played a key role in defeating the Election Interference and Lawfare waged against me, including by winning the Historic Immunity Decision in the Supreme Court.”

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The position of staff secretary in the White House is largely a behind-the-scenes role but manages the paper flow to the president from other parts of the federal government.

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