After a dramatic day in court yesterday -- including surprise testimony from Donald Trump, a $10,000 gag order violation fine, and inconsistent testimony from Michael Cohen -- both New York Attorney General Letitia James and the former president took to social media to describe the state of the trial.

"Their 'star' witness lied like a dog on the stand today," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post overnight.

In a video statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, James defended her case against Trump as a multi-year effort built on thousands of documents and hundreds of witnesses, rather than simply the testimony of Cohen.

"The defendants' counsel attempted and failed to discredit our entire case," James said.

Judge Arthur Engoron yesterday denied a motion from the defense to dismiss the case following the conclusion of Cohen's testimony, saying that Trump's former lawyer was not the case's "star witness."

"There's enough evidence in this case to fill this courtroom," Engoron quipped.

Following the adjournment of court for the day, Trump and New York Attorney General Letitia James offered contrasting views of the testimony of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.

Trump, speaking to reporters in a courthouse hallway, continued to claim that today was his Perry Mason moment.

"He was caught lying like no one has ever lied," he said of Cohen. "It was better than a Perry Mason moment, and that should be the end of the case."

The former president also criticized Judge Engoron for not ending the trial following Cohen's testimony, claiming he is being "railroaded."

"Any other judge, this would be the end of the case," Trump said.

James, speaking separately to reporters outside court, downplayed Cohen's importance to the case.

"It's also important to know that Michael Cohen is not the main witness," she said.

"His evidence has been corroborated by the mountains of evidence, enough evidence to fill the courtroom," the AG said, echoing a phrase Engoron used earlier.

Speaking outside after his testimony was complete and court was adjourned for the day, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen portrayed his testimony as successful and vital to holding Trump accountable, despite the contradictions in some of his answers.

Cohen maintained that he was not intimidated by Trump being in court during his testimony.

"When you looked him in the eye, Michael, what did you see?" ABC News reporter Aaron Katersky asked him.

"I saw a defeated man. I saw somebody that knows that it's the end of the Trump Organization," Cohen said.

Judge Arthur Engoron vehemently denied the defense's request to end the trial following former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's contradictory testimony.

"The government's key witness has fallen flat on his face," Trump attorney Clifford Robert said when requesting the case be dismissed.

"Absolutely denied. This case has evidence, credible or not, all over the place," said Engoron, who disagreed that Cohen was the case's star witness.

"There's enough evidence to fill this courtroom," Engoron said.

During Cohen's redirect examination, state attorney Colleen Faherty attempted to square Cohen's inconsistent answers by asking about his 2019 congressional testimony again. Cohen testified yesterday that he was "tasked by Trump" to inflate Trump's reported net worth, then today said his 2019 testimony, in which he said Trump never directly told him to do so, was correct.

"Donald Trump speaks like a mob boss … he tells you what he wants without specifically telling you," Cohen said in explaining the inconsistent response. "We understood what he wanted."

Deutsche Bank was a serious company in business with Donald Trump to make money, defense attorney Jesus Suarez said during his cross examination of former Deutsche Bank executive Nicholas Haigh.

At the height of its relationship with the Trump Organization the company loaned Trump over $378 million, and failed to commission independent appraisals of Trump's properties, Haigh acknowledged. While the bank listed lower estimates for the value of Trump's assets year after year, it continued to do business with Trump and his company.

"We ... the bank hadn't done all the due diligence one would do in the sense of the opinion of value you see in an appraisal," Haigh said, at one point agreeing with the defense's characterization that the bank's internal value services group conducted "sanity checks'' on the numbers.

The direct examination of Haigh by state attorney Kevin Wallace also left a central question about Deutsche Bank's activity unanswered.

In a letter to the court and in previous arguments, lawyers for the attorney general suggested that Haigh might have turned away Trump's business if he had known that Trump's assets were inflated in value.

"As this Court noted during summary judgment arguments, Mr. Haigh testified during OAG's investigation that he may not have authorized lending to the borrower if he had at that time been aware of the inflated asset values contained in Mr. Trump's SFCs [statements of financial condition]," a lawyer for the attorney general wrote to the court in a letter last week.

Wallace never directly posed the hypothetical to Haigh during his direct examination, leaving the question unresolved.

Court subsequently adjourned for the day, with Suarez telling the court he plans to continue his cross examination of Haigh through Thursday afternoon.