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President Donald Trump's aides are quietly preparing untested legal tactics to blunt a wave of Democratic investigations they expect after the midterms.

According to an article by Politico, new preparations have started since Will Scharf took over as the White House counsel on Tuesday. An August 10 Justice Department memo has also laid the groundwork for a broader use of executive privilege.

The White House counsel's office began briefing political appointees privately as far back as this spring, according to Politico. The office urged appointees to keep financial disclosures and ethics filings airtight and to think twice before committing anything to writing. ...

President Donald Trump's incoming White House counsel reveals the role that the president's top lawyers are meant to have, a legal analyst explained.

On a Tuesday episode of her podcast, attorney and journalist Katie Phang unloaded on Will Scharf, who's currently serving as staff secretary but is set to take over as the White House counsel on September 1. She described Scharf as having "had a history of being a little bit dubious" as Trump's former personal lawyer.

"The only qualification you need is not competency. It is not loyalty to the United States Constitution," Phang said. "It's the capacity to only kiss one person's a—, and that is convicted felon, Donald Trump."...