In January 2017, just days before taking office, President-elect Donald J. Trump announced a couple of promotions.
“My two sons — who are right here, Don and Eric — are going to be running the company,” he told a group of reporters.
“They are going to be running it in a very professional manner.”Nearly seven years later, Mr. Trump’s sons are alongside him as defendants in a civil case that accuses them of a decades-long fraud.
Eric Trump is expected to follow, and the former president and Ivanka Trump are likely to testify next week.
The presence of Mr. Trump’s children at the trial underscores how, along with wealth and positions of influence, they inherited the legal troubles that have trailed their father for years.
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