Trump’s Crypto-Invested AI Czar Cleared to Oversee Crypto

The Trump administration has issued a blanket ethics waiver to venture capitalist David Sacks, the president’s new special advisor for AI and crypto. The waiver clears Sacks to work on regulatory issues directly related to his financial holdings.

President Donald Trump and David Sacks, White House artificial intelligence and crypto czar, during an investment announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday, March 3, 2025. (Samuel Corum / Sipa / Bloomberg via Getty Images)


The Trump administration has issued a blanket ethics waiver to venture capitalist David Sacks, now the president’s special advisor for artificial intelligence and crypto, clearing him to work on regulatory issues directly related to his financial holdings, according to a White House memorandum reviewed by the Lever.

The waiver comes a month after President Donald Trump fired the Senate-confirmed director of the Office of Government Ethics — the independent agency responsible for enforcing federal ethics laws.

“I am granting you a waiver . . . of any conflict of interest regarding particular matters of general applicability concerning the digital asset industry,” reads the March 5 memo to Sacks from White House counsel David Warrington.

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