Donald Trump Jr. has offered no testimony to refute her fraud claims, New York Lawyer Common Letitia James mentioned, because the protection started making its case within the civil trial accusing the Trump household of offering false monetary statements to lenders.

Ms. James responded after Mr. Trump Jr. used his second stint on the witness stand to advertise the Trump Group as a storied firm with invaluable belongings that, if something, had been undervalued and engaging to banks.

The prosecutor mentioned his testimony Monday tried to distract the court docket from proof alleging that former President Donald Trump and his eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, misled banks to acquire favorable phrases on loans, comparable to paying decrease rates of interest.

“As an alternative of responding to any authorized declare in opposition to him and his household, or addressing the substantive proof in opposition to him, Donald Trump Jr. spent his whole time on stage speaking via photographs of Trump’s properties,” she mentioned in a video on social media. “The defendant has to this point not superior any level to refute our case in opposition to them.”

“This can be a courtroom, not a convention room,” Ms. James mentioned.

The Trump household says the banks fortunately handled their firm and made cash within the course of.

Mr. Trump, in his Reality Social platform on Tuesday, accused Ms. James of “smiling all day from her seat in court docket, as New York continues to set data for murders and different violent crimes, and companies flee to different states.”

“You have got an Lawyer Common (who hates Trump!) looking for a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in damages when these banks haven’t misplaced a dime,” Trump wrote.

Mr. Trump additionally reposted a message on-line saying that Ms. James and Choose Arthur Engoron — who will determine whether or not the Trump Group is liable and should pay the sanctions — needs to be positioned below residents’ arrest.

The decide issued a gag order barring Mr. Trump from criticizing court docket workers, although the order was designed primarily to guard his legislation clerk.