Testimony has resumed following the lunch break, with state attorneys asking the former president about his net worth as it related to loan requirements.

Trump agreed to maintain a net worth of $2.5 billion and cash in excess of $50 million when Deutsche Bank granted him a loan in 2011 for his Trump National Doral golf club, according to documents entered into evidence.

Asked about those covenants -- which Trump satisfied by certifying his financial statements -- Trump only addressed the cash on hand.

"They always want to make sure the cash was substantial," Trump said, claiming that he had $300 to $400 million in cash at the time.

"I've had a lot of cash for a long time," Trump said. "That is all they cared about."

Trump attorney Alina Habba assailed the New York attorney general's $250 million civil case and the judge overseeing it, in remarks to reporters during the lunch break.

"What I'm seeing is such a demise of the American judicial system," Habba said outside the courthouse. "They’ve got nothing but their politics."

"This is a judge who clearly has an issue with facts that are not good for the case," she said of Judge Arthur Engoron.

The courtroom has broken for lunch before Trump's testimony resumes for the afternoon session.

Trump testified in the morning session that he tasked then-Trump Organization executives Jeffrey McConney and Allen Weisselberg to work with a "very highly paid accounting firm" to handle his annual statements of financial condition, distancing himself from the preparation of the statements that are at the center of the New York attorney general's case.

"All I did was authorize for people to give what was necessary so they could do the statement," Trump said.

Asked about the valuation of his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, which was assessed at a dramatically lower value than Trump claimed because a deed restriction prevented it from being used as anything but a social club, Trump defended his valuation, saying, "We have the right to change it back to a house."

The former president also continued to tout his financial statements' so-called "worthless" clause which he said ensured that banks did not take the statement at face value.

"We have a disclaimer that says, 'Do your own due diligence. Don't under any circumstances count on anything here,'" Trump said in court, at one point waving a piece of paper in the air about the clause that he said vindicated him.

"I would love to read that if I could, your honor?" Trump asked Judge Engoron.

"No," Engoron said, shooting down the request.

"No shock," Trump quipped.

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.

The second day of testimony from the defense's expert accounting witness prompted an argument between attorneys for the two sides over the basic question of what the case is about -- leading defense lawyers to make their fourth unsuccessful request for a directed verdict to end the trial.

The arguments came toward the end of direct testimony by accounting expert defense Eli Bartov, who asserted the New York attorney general's case lacked merit because there was no evidence of any fraud on Trump's statements of financial condition, and that any errors about the values of Trump's properties were unintentional and therefore immaterial.

When the defense attempted to question Bartov about those values, state attorneys objected -- prompting defense attorney Christopher Kise to leap from his seat.

"If they don't call anyone to dispute our values, how have they proven their case?" Kise said.

Judge Arthur Engoron, in a pretrial ruling, already decided that Trump conducted a decade's worth of business using fraudulent financial statements, and state attorney Kevin Wallace suggested that Bartov's findings do not change those findings.

"You can't use false statements in business. That's what the summary judgment decision is all about. I think it is pretty much what the rest of this case is about," Engoron said in response to Kise's question.

Kise argued that if the attorney general doesn't prove what Trump's asset values should have been, the case is a "completely rudderless ship" that needs to be "moored to some sort of standard."

"You can't just say it's a misstatement because you feel like it," Kise argued.

"The standard is truth," Engoron responded.

The exchange prompted Trump's legal spokesperson, Alina Habba, to make the defense's fourth motion for a directed verdict, arguing that Engoron is "wasting our time" if he won't consider their expert testimony.

"They have not proven their case. They haven't," Habba said in her request for a directed verdict.

"Denied," Engoron said within seconds of the request, without hearing a response from lawyers for the New York attorney general.