Washington — US law does not forbid Donald Trump from managing his corporate empire from the White House, according to one of his top advisers, who counselled nevertheless that the billionaire’s businesses be run by his adult children. Rudy Giuliani, a former New York mayor and one of the leaders of Trump’s presidential transition team, told CNN that American presidents are not covered under laws preventing high government officials from having private industry ventures while in office. "You realise that those laws don’t apply to the president, right? The president doesn’t have to have a blind trust. For some reason, when the law was written, the president was exempt. I think he’s in a very unusual situation," Giuliani said of Trump. In a separate interview on ABC’s This Week, Giuliani said Trump should nevertheless remove himself from the running of his business empire. "For the good of the country, and the fact you don’t want a question coming up every time there’s a decision made...
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