As US President-elect Donald Trump makes his transition to the White House, we look at the family members and associates who are part of the team and could have key roles in decision-making during his presidency.
THE POLITICIANS
Vice-President-elect Mike Pence
The Indiana governor, 57, is charged with leading the team deciding the key appointments in the new administration.
He is a favourite among social conservatives who boasts considerable experience in Washington.
Mr Pence was raised Roman Catholic along with his five siblings in Columbus, Indiana, and says he was inspired by liberal icons John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
He is known for his staunch opposition to abortion, signing a bill in March to ban abortion in Indiana on the basis of disability, gender or race of the foetus.
He has said he would favour overturning a 1973 Supreme Court judgement, often referred to as the Roe v Wade case, which bars the US government from prohibiting abortions.
Women’s rights advocates have mounted online campaigns against his views, including asking people to call his office to tell them about their periods or to make donations to family-planning organisations in Mr Pence’s name.
He served as the chair of the House Republican Conference, the third highest-ranking Republican leadership position.
He also chaired the Republican Study Group, a coalition of conservative House Republicans, which could give him a boost with some evangelicals of the party that have questioned Mr Trump’s ideological purity, the BBC’s Anthony Zurcher says.
Rex Tillerson – Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson, who was described by Mr Trump as “a world-class player”, runs the world’s most valuable, publicly traded oil company.
The head of Exxon Mobil is known for his close ties with Vladimir Putin; in 2013, the Kremlin gave the Texan an Order of Friendship award.
Republicans and Democrats have questioned Mr Tillerson’s links to the Russian president, which could make for a bumpy ride in his Senate confirmation hearing.
Mr Tillerson has spent his entire career, more than 40 years, working for Exxon.
The 64-year-old joined the company as a production engineer, fresh from the University of Texas, Austin, and worked his way up to the top job in 2006.
Mr Tillerson had been expected to retire next year.
He has made more than $240m just in the past decade as Exxon CEO and would take a hefty pay cut as America’s top diplomat, earning a relatively meagre $203,700 a year.
Steven Mnuchin – Treasury Secretary
Mr Trump himself floated the idea of naming his finance chairman for the post of treasury secretary, before ultimately announcing him as his pick.
“Steve Mnuchin is a world-class financier, banker and businessman, and has played a key role in developing our plan to build a dynamic, booming economy that will create millions of jobs,” Mr Trump said in a statement announcing his decision.
Not all of Mr Trump’s supporters have welcomed the idea of handing the levers of national tax policy to a consummate Wall Street insider.
During his time running the OneWest bank, his business oversaw thousands of home foreclosures in the aftermath of the subprime mortgage crisis.
Mr Mnuchin amassed a fortune during his 17 years at Goldman Sachs before founding a movie production company that was behind such box office hits as the X-Men franchise and American Sniper.
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James Mattis – Secretary of Defence
The retired Marine Corps general has been named as Mr Trump’s defence chief. In a tweet after the two men met in November, Mr Trump called the 66-year old “very impressive”, adding: “A true General’s General!”
Gen Mattis served in the Marine Corps for 44 years, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. A counterinsurgency expert, he played a key role in fighting in Falluja in 2004.
From 2010 to 2013 he led US Central Command, which covers an area from the Horn of Africa into Central Asia and includes all US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He is known for his blunt comments. In 2005 he was criticised after saying – in reference to Afghan men who “slap women around… because they didn’t wear a veil” – that “it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them”.
But he is also described as a popular leader well-liked by those he commanded, and an avid reader of literature on warfare.
As Gen Mattis retired in 2013, the law that bans military officers from serving as defence chief for seven years after leaving active duty will have to be waived.
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John Kelly – Department of Homeland Security Secretary
The president-elect is expected to nominate the retired Marine General to oversee Homeland Security, which is responsible for a number of security issues ranging from immigration and cyber hacking to airport security and natural disaster management.
The former four star general, whose military career spans four decades, resigned in January after leaving his post as the head of the military’s Southern Command, which oversees military activities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mr Kelly is the highest-ranking military officer to lose a child in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
His son Robert, a first lieutenant in the Marines, was killed in combat when he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan in 2010.
The seasoned commander has also clashed with the Obama administration on illegal immigration at the US-Mexican border, an issue Mr Trump has vowed to make a priority in office.
Mr Kelly, who must first be confirmed by the Senate, would become the third retired general to accept a high-level position in the Trump administration.
Terry Branstad – Ambassador to China
The Iowa governor has been called an “old friend” of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“We welcome him to play a greater role in advancing the development of China-US relations,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang.
The two have known each other for more than 30 years beginning with Xi’s trips to Iowa dating back to the 1980s.
China is Iowa’s second-largest export market, after Canada, according to the US-China Business Council,. The state sold $1.4bn in crop products to the Asian nation in 2015.
Mr Branstad is the longest-serving US governor, with two non-consecutive terms that began in 1983 and 2011.
Before he took Iowa’s helm, he was elected to three terms in Iowa House of Representatives and later served as the state’s lieutenant governor.
President Xi and Governor Branstad first met during the governor’s first term, in 1985, when China’s future leader visited Iowa as a provincial agricultural official.
Mr Branstad, who has travelled to China four times in the past seven years, also hosted a dinner for Mr Xi during his visit to the state in 2012.
Governor Branstad was an early supporter for Trump and his son served as the president-elect’s state campaign director in Iowa.
The governor shares many of Mr Trump’s socially and fiscally conservative views – an advocate for small government and strongly pro-life.
Tom Price – Health and Human Services Secretary
The Georgia congressman and orthopaedic surgeon chairs the House of Representatives budget committee and has been an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reforms.
At 62, the six-term congressman is expected to play a key role in Republican plans to dismantle the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare).
Mr Trump vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare before the election but recently appeared to be toning down his campaign promise.
The president-elect has said he favours keeping certain provisions such as allowing young adults to be insured on their parents’ policies and barring insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Mr Price said he aimed to create a new system that worked for patients, families and doctors, adding that it should “protect the well-being of the country while embracing its innovative spirit”.
Mr Trump praised Mr Price as a “tireless problem solver” who was “exceptionally qualified to shepherd our commitment to repeal and replace Obamacare”.
Elaine Chao – Transportation Secretary
Elaine Chao has been picked for transportation secretary, which could serve as a powerful position in Mr Trump’s cabinet.
Mr Trump has vowed to boost infrastructure spending and rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges and other public transit.
Ms Chao, who was born in Taiwan, became the first Asian-American woman to hold a position in a presidential cabinet when she led the Labor Department under President Bush from 2001-09.
The 63-year-old, who is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, served as deputy secretary of transportation and director of the Peace Corps in former President George HW Bush’s administration.
She came to the US with her family at the age of eight and settled in New York, where her father became a shipping magnate.
If confirmed by the Senate, Ms Chao would become the second person to hold the positions of labor secretary, transportation secretary and the spouse of a Senate majority leader.
Elizabeth Dole previously held that title.
Jeff Sessions – Attorney General
Mr Sessions has been one of Mr Trump’s closest allies throughout the campaign.
In a statement, Mr Trump called the senator from Alabama a “world class legal mind”.
“Jeff is greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him,” Mr Trump said.
Mr Sessions said that he “enthusiastically” embraced Mr Trump’s vision for “one America and his commitment to equal justice under law”.
“I look forward to fulfilling my duties with an unwavering dedication to fairness and impartiality,” he said.
The 69-year-old was a supporter of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, which Mr Trump recently called “a terrible and stupid thing”.
Mr Sessions sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Judiciary Committee and the Budget Committee.
Allegations of racism have dogged him throughout his career.
He lost out on a federal judgeship back in 1986 when former colleagues said he had used the n-word and joked about the Ku Klux Klan, saying he thought they were “okay, until he learned that they smoked marijuana”.
Mr Sessions was also accused of calling a black assistant US attorney “boy” and labelling the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People “un-American” and “communist-inspired.”
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Mike Pompeo – CIA Director
The hardline Republican Congressman has been nominated to become the United States’ new spymaster.
Mr Pompeo, 52, was offered the job of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director even though he backed US President-elect Donald Trump’s rival, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, in the party’s presidential primary race.
The three-term tea party Republican from Wichita, Kansas, is a vehement critic of the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran and has defended the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection programme.
He also opposes closing Guantanamo Bay and, after visiting the prison in 2013, he remarked that some inmates who had declared a hunger strike looked like they had put on weight.
Mr Pompeo said in a statement he was “honoured and humbled” to accept the nomination, noting that it was a “difficult decision” to leave his post.
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Michael Flynn – National Security Adviser
The retired three-star US Army lieutenant-general was Mr Trump’s main national security adviser during the presidential campaign and has accepted an offer to stay on in the same role under Mr Trump’s administration.
The 57-year-old is credited for helping Mr Trump connect with veterans despite the candidate’s lack of military service.
Gen Flynn was the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the US military spy agency, from 2012-14, but says he was forced out of the role because of his views on radical Islam.
In February, he said on Twitter, “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL” and he has published a book, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies.
Gen Flynn has been a life-long Democrat and a registered member of party but was heard chanting “lock her up” against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at Trump rallies.
During the campaign, he also pilloried the Obama administration’s approach to the threat posed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
Gen Flynn has said the US should work more closely with Russia in Syria to combat IS. He has been criticised for his repeated appearances on RT, the Russian state television network.
Reince Priebus – Chief of Staff
Mr Trump’s White House gatekeeper is 44 years old.
As chairman of the Republican National Committee, he was a bridge between the Republican nominee and a party establishment that was embarrassed by its own presidential standard-bearer.
But he has never held elected office and brings no policy experience to the White House in a role serving as a liaison to cabinet agencies.
Mr Priebus is close to House Speaker Paul Ryan, a fellow Wisconsinite, who could be instrumental in steering the new administration’s legislative agenda.
Nikki Haley – US Ambassador to the UN
In the Republican primaries, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley first backed Florida Senator Marco Rubio and later Texas Senator Ted Cruz before she finally threw her support behind Mr Trump.
She was highly critical of Mr Trump’s proposal to ban Muslim immigrants, calling it “un-American”, and also of his refusal to release tax records.
Announcing her as the first woman chosen for his cabinet, the president-elect called her “a proven dealmaker” who will be “a great leader representing us on the world stage”.
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The 44-year-old daughter of Indian immigrants is the first minority and female governor of South Carolina, a deeply conservative state with a long history of racial tensions.
As the youngest governor in the US and only the second Indian-American to serve at the helm of a US state, she has been characterised as a rising star within the Republican Party.
Before becoming the state’s chief executive, she served six years as a member of the state’s House of Representatives.
But her biggest appearance on the national stage came last year when she had the Confederate battle flag removed from her state’s Capitol building.
Rick Perry – Energy Secretary
The 66-year-old former Texas governor will head an agency he proposed to eliminate during his failed 2012 presidential campaign.
The recent Dancing with the Stars contestant was a vocal critic of Mr Trump, calling him a “barking carnival act” and a “cancer on conservatism” before he dropped out of his second unsuccessful bid for the White House in 2015.
As governor of Texas, Mr Perry called for lighter regulation on the oil industry and referred to the science around climate change as “unsettled”.
Environmental activists are concerned Mr Perry will shift the department’s focus on renewable energy toward fossil fuels.
He also sits on the board of directors at Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.
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Betsy DeVos – Education Secretary
Betsy DeVos, 58, became the second woman nominated for a cabinet position when Mr Trump named her as education secretary.
Mrs DeVos, a wealthy Republican Party donor and a former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman, said she was honoured to accept the appointment.
However, in an interview last March she described Mr Trump as “an interloper” who didn’t represent the Republican Party.
Mrs DeVos is an advocate of Republican-favoured charter schools, which are publicly funded and set up by teachers, parents, or community groups, outside the state school system.
She also previously supported the Common Core education standards that Mr Trump and many conservatives have pilloried.
Mr Trump called her “a brilliant and passionate education advocate”.
Andy Puzder – Secretary of Labor
The wealthy fast-food executive and Republican donor has long been a friend of Donald Trump, and helped him raise money in his home state of California during the early stages of his campaign.
Mr Puzder heads CKE Restaurants Holdings, the parent company of fast-food chains Carl’s Jr, Hardee’s, and others.
He has said about his restaurants’ risque adverts: “I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it’s very American.”
In 2010 he published a book called “Job Creation: How it Really Works and Why Government Doesn’t Understand It”.
“We’ve reached the point where overregulation is doing meaningful damage to our businesses,” he told an audience in November.
Democrats and union leaders have decried Mr Puzder as being hostile to low wage workers.
He has been an opponent of raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour and against “nanny state” regulations such as a tax on sugary drinks.
Ryan Zinke – Secretary of the Interior
The former Navy SEAL has been picked to lead the agency that oversees federal land, including national parks such as Yosemite and Yellowstone.
The 55-year-old Republican congressman represents the state of Montana, where he was raised near Glacier National Park, on the Canadian border.
“As a former Navy SEAL, he has incredible leadership skills and an attitude of doing whatever it takes to win”, Mr Trump said in a statement announcing his selection.
Mr Zinke has bucked his party on the issue of privatisation or transfer of public lands to states, which he believes should remain under federal control.
Environmental advocacy groups largely condemned the pick, with the Sierra Club saying that “Zinke is firmly in the past, clinging to plans to mine, drill and log public lands to benefit corporate polluters, supporting dangerous and dirty projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, and opposing efforts to clean up our air”.
Scott Pruitt – Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator
The Oklahoma attorney general and well-known climate change sceptic will be leading the federal agency tasked with protecting the environment.
Mr Pruitt’s appointment comes as he leads a 28-state efforts to halt President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, an effort to limit emissions from coal-fired plants; a plan that the EPA has been in charge of enforcing.
Mr Pruitt has called the EPA’s work “unlawful and overreaching” and he has expressed doubt about the scientific evidence showing that humans’ activity is causing the planet’s temperature to warm.
“That debate is far from settled,” Mr Pruitt said about climate change.
“Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind,” he told an audience in May.
Environmental groups expressed alarm at Mr Pruitt’s appointment.
“Having Scott Pruitt in charge of the US Environmental Protection Agency is like putting an arsonist in charge of fighting fires,” said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.
THE AIDES
Stephen Bannon – Chief Strategist
Though not a cabinet appointment, Mr Bannon, 62, could wield immense influence behind the scenes as one of Mr Trump’s key advisers.
The Breitbart News executive will be the president’s senior counsellor, though he will work as “equal partners” with Mr Priebus, creating twin power bases in the West Wing.
A number of critics have accused Mr Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker, of promoting extreme views.
The firebrand conservative helped transform Breitbart into the leading mouthpiece of the party’s fringe, anti-establishment wing.
The combative site serves up an anti-establishment agenda that critics accuse of xenophobia and misogyny. Under Mr Bannon, it has become one of the most-read conservative news and opinion sites in the US.
Born in Virginia in 1953, Mr Bannon spent four years in the navy before completing an MBA at Harvard. He then went into investment banking and, after a spell with Goldman Sachs, moved successfully into media financing.
He shifted into film production, working in Hollywood before branching out into independent political documentary making, paying homage to former US President Ronald Reagan, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement.
Through this work he met Andrew Breitbart, a staunchly conservative media entrepreneur who wanted to create a site that challenged what he saw as liberal-dominated mainstream media.
When Andrew Breitbart died of a heart attack in 2012, Mr Bannon took over as head of Breitbart News and drove it forward.
Stephen Miller – Senior Policy Adviser
Mr Miller, 30, was a top aide to Senator Sessions before he joined the campaign.
He often warmed up crowds before Mr Trump took the stage at rallies on the campaign trail and was recently named the national policy director for Mr Trump’s transition team. He also served as the campaign’s chief speechwriter.
As a senior adviser, Mr Miller will manage White House policy staff, speechwriting functions and ensure the implementation of the president-elect’s policy, according to a transition team statement.
“Stephen played a central and wide-ranging role in our primary and general election campaign,” Mr Trump said.
“He is deeply committed to the America First agenda, and understands the policies and actions necessary to put that agenda into effect.”
Mr Miller was considered a “behind-the-scene architect of the successful effort to kill comprehensive immigration reform in 2014”, according to a Politico profile of him earlier this year.
Kellyanne Conway – Counsellor to the President
The 49-year-old Republican strategist and veteran pollster will serve as the highest-ranking woman in the White House after having earlier been considered for the role of press secretary.
“Kellyanne Conway has been a trusted advisor and strategist who played a crucial role in my victory. She is a tireless and tenacious advocate of my agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate our message,” Mr Trump said in a statement.
The mother of four young children was promoted as Mr Trump’s third campaign manager in August as part of another staff shake-up after the Republican convention.
She has been praised as the “Trump whisperer” and became the first woman to run a successful US presidential campaign.
Ms Kelly joined Mr Trump’s team in July after working for a super PAC that supported Mr Trump’s primary rival, Senator Ted Cruz.
She has spent most of her career helping conservative politicians court female voters through her company, The Polling Company Inc/Woman Trend.
Hope Hicks – Senior Adviser?
Ms Hicks, 27, served as Mr Trump’s press secretary and handled media requests during his campaign.
The fashion model-turned-spokeswoman previously worked as a publicist for Ivanka Trump’s fashion label before entering politics with Mr Trump’s bid for the White House.
Though she rarely speaks in public, Ms Hicks handled most of Mr Trump’s campaign communications on her own until the New York businessman hired more staff over the summer.
Dan Scavino – director of White House social media?
Mr Scavino and Ms Hicks were two of the only aides to remain by Mr Trump’s side during the many staff shake-ups throughout his tumultuous campaign.
He ran Mr Trump’s social media operations and was recently named the president-elect’s director of social media for his transition team.
Mr Scavino first met the New York billionaire as a teenage caddie working at one of Mr Trump’s golf courses and later rose to a senior position within the Trump Organization.
Jason Miller – White House Communications Director?
He was recently named Mr Trump’s communications director for his transition team, but served as a senior communications adviser throughout his campaign.
Mr Miller was a top aide to Senator Ted Cruz during his presidential campaign before he joined Mr Trump’s team.
His hire was seen as a move to bulk up his communications team and help Ms Hicks, who largely handled media relations on her own.
Mr Miller has previously consulted on Republican campaigns including Mr Giuliani’s 2008 White House bid as well as for Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin and South Carolina Representative Mark Sanford.
THE FAMILY
Melania Trump
A former model, born in Slovenia, Melania married Donald Trump in January 2005.
She stood by her husband after video footage emerged during the campaign in which he boasted about groping women. In July 2016 she made headlines after making a speech at the Republican National Convention, which she was accused of plagiarising from one made by Michelle Obama in 2008.
In an October interview with CNN, the 46-year-old was asked what she would change about her husband. She replied: “His tweeting”.
Ivanka Trump
Perhaps the best-known of Donald Trump’s children, the only daughter of his marriage to Ivana, his first wife. A model in her early years, she is now a vice-president at The Trump Organization and was also a judge on her father’s reality TV show The Apprentice.
Her brother Donald Junior says Ivanka, 35, is the favourite child and is referred to as “Daddy’s little girl”.
She has been given a level of authority in the family business that none of his wives have ever had and she is said to handle some of the company’s biggest deals.
She also has her own fashion brand, with the motto #womenwhowork.
She converted to Judaism after marrying Jared Kushner in 2009.
As a successful businesswoman and mother, she appealed to female voters who may have been put off by some of Mr Trump’s comments about women.
In a speech to the Republican National Congress, she backed her father to support women’s rights: “As a mother myself, of three young children, I know how hard it is to work while raising a family. And I also know that I’m far more fortunate than most. American families need relief. Policies that allow women with children to thrive should not be novelties, they should be the norm.”
Jared Kushner
Ivanka’s husband is the son of a prominent New York property developer and has been the owner of the weekly Observer paper in New York for 10 years.
The quietly spoken 35-year-old has become one of Mr Trump’s closest advisers. He exerted a powerful influence over the Trump campaign – including digital strategy and top-level hires – and looks set to carry that clout into the White House.
Usually camera-shy and happy to operate behind the scenes, Mr Kushner is a vastly wealthy property developer and publisher. He owns 666 Fifth Avenue, a skyscraper a few blocks down from Trump Tower, and in 2006, at just 25, he bought the once-venerable New York Observer newspaper.
He has not been given an official position within the Trump administration but Mr Kushner has been named alongside three of Mr Trump’s children in the transition team and he is said to have the president-elect’s ear.
An Orthodox Jew, he is reported to have angered members of his own family when he wrote a defence of Donald Trump’s use of the Star of David in a tweet attacking Hillary Clinton.
Jared Kushner was born and raised in comfort in Livingston, New Jersey, alongside two sisters and a brother. His grandparents had escaped Poland during the war, arriving in the US in 1949, and his father Charles made his fortune as a New Jersey property mogul.
The young Jared won a place at Harvard despite poor grades, according to Daniel Golden, author of The Price of Admissions: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges. In the year of his admission, according to Mr Golden’s book, Charles Kushner donated $2.5m to the university, along with similar one-off donations to Cornell and Princeton.
Mr Kushner and Mr Trump share a complete lack of political experience, but Mr Trump has praised his son-in-law for being “very good at politics” and appears to trust his judgement. When controversial campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was fired from the campaign in June, it was reported that Mr Kushner, having clashed with Mr Lewandowski, had pushed for him to get the chop.
In contrast to his father-in-law, Mr Kushner is said to be a calm and composed personality, camera-shy and reluctant to be in the forefront. He is also slight, softly-spoken, and looks young even for his 35 years. But his extensive involvement with the Trump campaign and reported bond with the president-elect suggest he could become an outsize influence in Washington.
Tiffany Trump
Donald Trump’s daughter by his second wife Marla Maples is a former actress and TV personality.
The 23-year-old is an avid user of both Twitter and Instagram, where her posts depict a glamorous lifestyle.
She kept a relatively low profile during the election campaign and is not thought to have the same input or influence as her siblings.
But she earned her father’s praise for her “fantastic” convention speech, in which she said her father was a “natural-born encourager”.
Donald Trump Jr
Donald Trump’s eldest son from his first marriage to Ivana. Now executive vice-president of The Trump Organization, the 38-year-old married Vanessa Haydon after being introduced to her at a fashion show by his father.
His rise has not been free from controversy. His and brother Eric’s taste for hunting big game was criticised after photos emerged showing them posing with dead animals including a leopard and a crocodile. Donald Jr was also holding the severed tail of an elephant.
Eric Trump
The third child of Mr Trump’s marriage to Ivana. Like his siblings, he is also an executive vice-president of the Trump Organization.
He is president of the Trump Winery in Virginia and oversees Trump golf clubs. In 2006, he also set up the Eric Trump Foundation, which has pledged $28m to a research hospital which helps children battling life-threatening diseases.
He may have broken the law on election day by tweeting a picture of his ballot paper, saying it was an “incredible honour to vote for my father”.
