Eric Trump has resumed his testimony this morning.

Before he took the stand, Donald Trump's attorney Chris Kise said that the defense team is considering requesting the mistrial on the basis of a Breitbart report alleging bias from Judge Engoron's law clerk.

"I think the defense will have to give serious consideration to seeking a mistrial," Kise said, initially referencing a vague media report that "some random individual" filed a complaint on Oct. 3 alleging "accusations of partisan political activity" by the judge's clerk.

"It's not information, it's an allegation," Judge Engoron initially responded. "I don't know what you are talking about, and I will respond later."

A state attorney argued that Kise was arguing a "frivolous position" and requested specifics about the news report Kise cited.

"I'm not the internet person. I want to say it is on Breitbart maybe. It's on a news outlet," Kise said, prompting laughter from the gallery.

"This idea that somebody notified me ... is absolutely untrue. OK? Absolutely untrue," Engoron responded. "I will let everybody in the room decide what they think about Breitbart."

"It's a shame you descended to this level," Engoron added.

A court spokesperson subsequently described the report as "not a serious complaint."

After a day of testimony in which tempers at times flared on all sides, Eric Trump will return to court this morning for what is expected to be his final day on the witness stand.

In a video statement posted to social media last night, New York Attorney General Letitia James suggested that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's testimony yesterday highlighted how they lied to help inflate their father's net worth.

Eric Trump was "intimately involved in lying about the values of properties ... to make his father appear richer," while Donald Trump Jr. "continued to lie" by certifying his father's financial statements despite being confronted with misstatements, James alleged.

"They pretend that they were not involved in their family's fraudulent business. But the facts tell a very different story," James said in the video.

A New York appeals court has denied an emergency request from Ivanka Trump to stop her testimony at her father's civil fraud trial.

Trump's daughter, who is not a defendant in the case, was subpoenaed by the attorney general to testify.

She is currently scheduled to testify next week on Wednesday.

Outside court after court was adjourned for the day, Trump attorney Alina Habba defended the actions of Donald Trump's adult children on the heels of their testimony.

"These children are being brought in, away from their families, for doing nothing wrong," Habba said.

Echoing Trump, Habba attacked New York Attorney General Letitia James and called the trial "the biggest waste of New York taxpayer dollars I have ever seen."

"She piggybacked on Trump to get into office. She didn't do it well enough to become governor," Habba said, referencing James' failed attempt to run for New York governor in 2021.

"This is a waste of time," Habba said.

Exiting court separately with his attorney, Eric Trump shot a thumbs-up to an onlooker ahead of his return to the stand Friday morning.

Donald Trump's lawyers abruptly stopped the testimony of their first expert witness -- who was expected to testify for a full day or two -- after Judge Engoron limited the topic areas of his testimony.

Steven Witkoff, a real estate investor and longtime friend of Trump's, was brought into court by the defense team to testify that Trump's Doral golf club was undervalued in Trump's financial statements.

But Judge Engoron sustained an objection from the state barring any testimony about the valuation of Doral, significantly limiting Witkoff's testimony and appearing to hamper the defense strategy proposed by Trump's attorney Chris Kise.

Kise argued that the inaccuracies in Trump's statement of financial condition can cut both ways: Even if some properties were overvalued, other properties like Doral were significantly undervalued and balanced out the statement, according to Kise.

"It is highly, extraordinarily relevant if there are assets that are undervalued substantially on those same statements," Kise said. "They can't look at this one-sided."

State attorney Andrew Amer fiercely rebutted that argument, telling Engoron he should not take the defense's position that the inconsistencies "come out in the wash."

That argument appeared to convince Engoron, who said that overvaluations would not "insulate" a false valuation. He promised to sustain any objection that related to the value of Doral -- an approach Kise described as "lunacy."

"The reader of the financial statement has the right to know whether each particular number was accurate," Engoron said. "They are looking for accuracy."