After tamping down on Trump at the start of the day, Judge Engoron has largely been granting him space to engage in the kind of provocative language he often uses on social media.

But at one point, when Trump pulled out a piece of paper about a disclaimer and said it vindicates him, Engoron stepped in.

The former president argued in his deposition earlier this year, and has repeatedly said on social media, that a so-called "worthless" disclaimer included in his statements of financial condition -- which warns lenders that the valuations in the document require judgment and that they should do their own analysis -- insulates him from liability.

Engoron, an a partial summary judgment issued before the start of the trial, ruled otherwise.

"No, no, no, we are not going to hear about the disclaimer clause," Engoron responded when Trump pulled out the paper.

After a cordial question-and-answer interlude seemed to cool down the temperature in courtroom, the former president has grown increasingly animated as he levels complaints against the judge and the New York attorney general, whom he called "a political hack."

When state attorney Kevin Wallace asked Trump if he disagreed with the attorney general's assessment of the value of some of the Trump Organization's properties, Trump fired back.

"I think it's fraudulent," Trump said. "The fraud is on the court, not on me."

Looking at Wallace but motioning toward Judge Engoron, Trump said of the judge, "You ruled against me before you knew anything about me ... he called me a fraud and he didn't know anything about me."

Referring to New York Attorney General Letitia James, Trump said: "It's a political witch hunt and I think she should be ashamed of herself."

Wallace has largely ignored Trump's asides, instead moving on to the next question. After a particularly agitated exclamation, Wallace asked Trump, "You done?"

"Yes," Trump replied.

Despite addressing two overvaluations on his statement of financial condition, Trump has repeatedly tried to stymie the state attorney's yes-or-no line of questioning regarding his financial statement, underscoring his legal team's defense that real estate valuations are an art, not a science.

Earlier, in response to a question about the compilation of his financial records in 2021, Trump invoke his work in the White House to demonstrate that he was too preoccupied with the nation's business to engage in his own.

"I was so busy in the White House," Trump said. "My threshold was China, Russia and keeping our country safe."

"Just for the record," state attorney Kevin Wallace replied, "you weren't president in 2021?"

"No, I wasn't," Trump acknowledged.

Donald Trump acknowledged during direct examination that he overvalued at least two properties in his statements of financial condition, though he broadly represented that the statements underestimated his total net worth.

"Did you ever think that the values were off in your statement of financial condition?" state attorney Kevin Wallace asked about the document at the center of the case, which the New York attorney general has alleged contained fraudulent valuations.

"Yes, on occasion. Both high and low," Trump said, appearing to surprise Wallace, who paused to allow Trump to continue his answer.

Compared to his sons, who largely testified that they deferred to accountants and lawyers, Trump portrayed himself as an experienced businessman who "was certainly more expert than anybody else" when it came to the value of his own properties.

Asked about properties like 40 Wall Street and a retail space near Trump Tower, the former president confidently used real estate shorthand to explain why he thought certain properties were undervalued. He also repeated that his brand value -- which was not included in his financial statement -- is worth billions.

"The most valuable asset was the brand value," Trump said. "I became president because of my brand."

However, Trump acknowledged that two properties -- his triplex apartment in Trump Tower and his Seven Springs estate in New York's Westchester County -- were overvalued and had to be adjusted in his financial statement.

"I thought the apartment was overvalued when I looked at it," Trump said, appearing to refer to a $200 million correction applied to his statement after Forbes magazine reported that he falsely stated the apartment was three times its actual size.

Asked about the change in the statement, Trump acknowledged the square footage mistake, which he blamed on a broker, while also claiming that the number was "not far off" from reality when you consider the square footage of Trump Tower's roof.

"It's a mistake … [but] there's a disclaimer clause so you don't have to get sued by the attorney general of New York," Trump said.

Trump made a similar admission about the $291 million valuation of Seven Springs.

"I thought it was too high and we lowered it," Trump said, though he could not provide specifics about the changed valuation.

Donald Trump Jr. struggled to answer questions when pressed about why former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg departed the family's firm.

"Because some legal issues he got himself into," Trump Jr. said, declining to offer specifics about Weisselberg's guilty plea on tax evasion charges last year.

Previously giving lengthy answers to questions about his background and even smiling with the judge, Trump Jr. appeared tense on the witness stand as he answered questions about Weisselberg.

"The specific event was he was indicted," Trump Jr. said.

He added that when began working for the Trump Organization as an executive vice president in the 2010s, Weisselberg outranked him. Trump Jr. would seek Weisselberg's approval for certain business decisions such as refinancing loans.

"Who is above you in your role as an executive vice president in the Trump Organization?" state attorney Colleen Faherty asked.

"Obviously I would have reported to my father in that period of time … people like Allen Weisselberg would have still been senior to me," Trump Jr. said of that time period.

Trump Jr. said he gained more responsibility in 2016 when his father became president and he was named a trustee of his father's revocable trust. He said that he, Weisselberg and his brother Eric Trump became a kind of triumvirate running the Trump Organization.

"We stopped reporting to my father on decisions involving the business," Trump Jr. said.

That relationship broke down once Weisselberg got himself into "legal issues," Trump Jr. said. He testified that he could not recall the circumstances of Weisselberg's exit, including the multimillion-dollar severance deal that Weisselberg received, which Weisselberg faced questions about during his own testimony earlier this month.

"I have no knowledge of the specifics of how it happened. He is no longer working at the Trump Organization," Trump Jr. said of the former CFO.