Billionaire US President-elect Donald Trump has said he is not obliged to cut ties to his business empire when he takes office on 20 January.
A Democratic senator is tabling a resolution calling on him to liquidate his assets to show he will not mean to benefit from the office of president.
There is absolutely no legal requirement to liquidate assets but their business deals have been set aside by past US presidents.
Mr Trump also disowned far right activists who hailed his election triumph.
“Alt-right” activists could be seen making Nazi salutes at a summit in Washington DC over the weekend, where a speaker enjoined them to “Hail Trump”.
Mr Trump, that has flown to Florida for the Thanksgiving holiday is collecting his White House team. David Petraeus, among the top generals in America, has told the BBC he’d be willing to serve under him.
