Trump U lawsuit trails the president-elect right to the White House door

During the campaign, Donald Trump was eager to boast that if elected president he would take office unencumbered by a career in public office — unlike Hillary Clinton, who would be entangled at the outset in investigations and controversies arising from her decades in public life. The occasion was a hearing in the fraud suit over Trump University, which has been hanging over him for years and is now scheduled to begin on Nov. 28.