Trump's claim is not that anything the president does is legal; but much more specifically, that none of it is a conflict of interest. Since that is clearly an

Trump's claim is not that anything the president does is legal; but much more specifically, that none of it is a conflict of interest. Since that is clearly an absurd statement, I will give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant that nothing the president does is legally considered a conflict of interest. In otherwords, the specific laws against conflicts of interest do not apply to the president. This turns out to be a suprisingly true statement. The only conflict of interest law I could find (after an admitadly brief search) is [0]. I have not thourally reviewed it, but found the following snippet in the definitions section: "Except as otherwise provided in such sections, the terms “officer” and “employee” in sections 203, 205, 207 through 209, and 218 of this title shall not include the President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress, or a Federal judge." [1]. [0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-11 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-11 [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/202 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/202