The lawsuit was brought by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, who accuses the former president and several top Trump Organization executives - including his two eldest sons - of fraudulently inflating the value of properties to secure favourable loans from banks.
"The number of grossly inflated asset values is staggering, affecting most if not all of the real estate holdings in any given year," the lawsuit, which James filed in September, states.
Outside the court, James said she expected Trump to "engage in namecalling and taunts and race-baiting, and call this a witch-hunt.
"But at the end of the day, the only thing that matters are the facts and the numbers - and numbers, my friends, don't lie," she said.
Trump was on the attack even before he reached the court. "Got a really Biased, Nasty, Club controlled, but often overturned, Judge, a Racist, Evil, and Corrupt Attorney General, BUT A CASE THAT, ACCORDING TO ALMOST ALL LEGAL SCHOLARS, HAS ZERO MERIT," he wrote on his Truth Social site. "A dark day for our Country. WITCH HUNT!"
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