Trump’s Fraud Trial Ends With Squabbling Over ‘Comical’ Accounting Witness, Trump Denouncing Case as ‘Total Hit Job’

‘You’re going to appeal?’ Judge Engoron joked with the Trump Organization’s attorney, stating the obvious.

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President Trump speaks after arriving for his civil business fraud trial in New York State Supreme Court on December 7, 2023. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez-Pool/Getty Images

President Trump did not return to the courtroom, where testimony ended in the Trump Organization’s civil fraud trial on Wednesday. Yet the defense lawyers and counsel for the attorney general’s office fiercely battled to the bitter end.    

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