“I Hope The Public Is Watching This.”—Trump, In His Trial

 So do I:

Trump was then asked if he continued to stand by the inflated valuations in his 2014 financial statements. He responded, "People like you go around and try to demean me and hurt me ... there was a disclaimer clause ... This is disgraceful." Then addressing AG Letitia James he said, "She's a political hack and using this case to become Governor ... this is a political witch hunt ... the fraud is her." 

Trump then started rambling again about the disclaimer clause and Judge Engoron interrupted, saying that they weren't going back over that again and if he was confused about his ruling about it then he should go back and read the decision. (He said that those clauses don't mean the statement can't be relied upon because you have a duty to try to provide accurate information despite a disclaimer). 

Trump responded to the judge, "He called me a fraud and he doesn't even know me ... He said Mar-a-Lago was worth $18 million, what a fraud. As President of the United States, we did a great job. Just look at the president we have today. It's a terrible thing you've done. You believed that political hack sitting back there." (Gesturing at James). 

The prosecutor then asked Trump who in Trump Org was responsible for making sure that the financial statements submitted by his accounting firm were accurate. 

Trump responded, "Everybody. I tell people, if anybody sees anything wrong, report it." 

Trump was then shown an article by Forbes, which broke the story that he wildly inflated the size of his New York apartment. He then attacked Forbes, "They're owned by China. Now, they sold it to Russia. I have very little respect for Forbes. I haven't dealt with Forbes in years. I think they're out of business."

Trump the petulant child:

Trump was then shown a statement from 2015 that showed he was losing millions of dollars on 40 Wall Street. Trump claimed the reason for that was because he was investing a lot of money into the property "fixing it up. We rebuilt the elevators, the lobbies." Trump then motioned back to AG Letitia James and said, "She doesn't know what 40 Wall Street is worth. She doesn't even know where 40 Wall Street is. It's going to do very well in the future." (This caused James to briefly start laughing as her office is right next to 40 Wall Street).

During lunch Habba went outside to talk tough:

Habba attacking the judge: But I was told to sit down today. I was yelled at and I've had a judge who is unhinged slamming a table. I don’t tolerate that in my life, I’m not going to tolerate it here

I don’t think she wants to end her day in jail for contempt of court. (I’ve been yelled at by judges, too. It’s a very good to experience the social situation you feared as a shy person, and realize you lived through it.)  

Meanwhile, Trump got back on the stand and said this about whether or not he paid all the loans he was questioned about in court:

Trump: You have an Attorney General sitting here all day, while people are being killed in the street. I don't have a jury, I want a jury. She sued me under a statute that doesn't have a jury. You are trying to keep me on the stand as election interference

Years from now the transcript of this testimony will appear in legal textbooks as the example of in-responsive testimony.

I’ve seen pro se plaintiffs do better than this.

Reporter: How did it go? 

Trump: I think it went very well…

You can’t fix stupid.