{"id":7041704,"date":"2026-08-19T13:10:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/what-is-the-point-of-white-house-counsel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:10:56","slug":"what-is-the-point-of-white-house-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7041704","title":{"rendered":"What is the point of White House Counsel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-5268350118451988928\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nIs there any reason to still have a separate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/09\/us\/politics\/trump-will-scharf-white-house-counsel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4VA.WqwY.-AnKwC3m9Gr7&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share\" title=\"position of White House Counsel\">position of White House Counsel<\/a>? My understanding is the position is to give the current president a lawyer to represent his own personal interests while he is president. This was needed because the Attorney General\/DOJ was independent and was supposed to represent the interests of the country as a whole, which could conflict with the president\u2019s personal interests.<\/p>\n<div>But under Trump, that distinction no longer exist. He expects his Attorney Generals and the DOJ to act like his personal lawyers, and the guy who <b><i>was<\/i><\/b>\u00a0his personal attorney (and still apparently thinks of himself as that)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/8\/8\/trumps-former-personal-lawyer-narrowly-confirmed-as-us-attorney-general\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" title=\"is now the AG.\">is now the AG.<\/a>\u00a0Doesn\u2019t that make the White House Counsel superfluous? Why are taxpayers paying for <i style=\"font-weight: bold;\">another<\/i>\u00a0lawyer to represent Trump\u2019s interests?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there any reason to still have a separate\u00a0position of White House Counsel? My understanding is the position is to give the current president a lawyer to represent his own personal interests while he is president. This was needed because the Attorney General\/DOJ was independent and was supposed to represent the interests of the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14238,594,7669,355],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7041704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-counsel","tag-house","tag-point","tag-white"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is the point of White House Counsel? - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7041704\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is the point of White House Counsel? - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Is there any reason to still have a separate\u00a0position of White House Counsel? 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