Trump called for the case to end as he left the lower Manhattan courthouse following an hour-long meeting behind closed doors with his legal team, New York Attorney General Letitia James and lawyers from her office and the judge.

He said the AG's "chief witness" - his former personal attorney Michael Cohen - had "admitted he lied" during his testimony earlier Wednesday.

"He said, ‘I lied.’ numerous times. And then he said, as per the best television show you’ll ever imagine, he said, me, ‘I did not ask him to manipulate figures.’ That should be the end of the case," Trump told reporters, before leaving in his motorcade.

Cohen began testifying Tuesday - facing off with his former boss for the first time in five years. He wrapped up his testimony Wednesday.

The trial is set to continue Thursday morning when another witness will be called by the AG's office. Trump is not expected to be in attendance.

Michael Cohen told reporters after court wrapped for the day that he saw his former boss Donald Trump as a "defeated man."

“I saw somebody that knows that it’s the end of the Trump Organization," said Cohen outside the lower Manhattan courthouse where he testified over two days at Trump's civil fraud trial.

Cohen said he looked into Trump's eyes "many times" from the witness stand - and that he wasn't phased by the ex-president at the defense table.

"They wanted to make a motion to dismiss the case, to which the judge responded: 'Yeah, absolutely not,'" Cohen said of Trump's attorneys. "You know why? Because he will ultimately be held accountable."

He added: "As I said the other day, that’s what this is all about. It’s accountability."

Trump abruptly left the courtroom this afternoon after the judge denied a request by his attorneys to dismiss the case.

The lawyers cited evidence that came up during their cross-examination of Michael Cohen in their request to Justice Arthur Engoron.

"Denied," Engoron said -- before Trump got up from the defense table and walked out.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron fined Trump $10,000 over a remark he found violated the gag order he imposed weeks ago, barring the ex-president from commenting on court staff.

Engoron called Trump to the stand after the lunch break to ask about the remark he made earlier today — which Trump denied had been about the judge's top law clerk, whom he had maligned back at the start of the trial in a since-deleted post on Truth Social.

"Did you say, 'This judge is a very partisan judge with a person who is very partisan sitting alongside of him'?" the judge asked Trump.

"Yes," Trump replied, then claimed he'd been referring to witness Michael Cohen and Engoron.

"You sure you didn’t mean the person on the other side, my principal law clerk?" Engoron probed.

“Yes, I’m sure," Trump insisted.

The judge excused Trump, who said "Thank you" as he walked back to the defense table, slouching with his head tilted down.

"I find the witness is not credible," Engoron said before imposing the fine.

The judge wrapped up the 18-minute grill session with yet another warning:

“Don’t do it again or it will be worse.”

Earlier today, Trump took shots at the judge and "a person sitting beside him" as he spoke to reporters in the courthouse hallway.

“This judge is a very partisan judge with a person who's very partisan alongside him, perhaps much more partisan than he is,” Trump had said while returning to the courtroom after a morning break.

Trump denied that he was referring to Judge Arthur Engoron's top law clerk when he made a comment outside the courtroom that sparked a threat of "severe sanctions" from the jurist.

After leaving the courtroom around 1:20 p.m. for the lunch break, Trump answered “no” when asked by reporters whether he had violated the gag order issued by the judge earlier in the trial with his remark.

“No, not at all,” Trump said.

During a break earlier in the day, Trump had said: “This judge is a very partisan judge with a person who’s very partisan alongside him, perhaps much more partisan than he is."

Engoron said he interpreted it as referring to his clerk -- whom Trump has previously been warned against disparaging -- and noted that he would be weighing whether the ex-president was in violation of the order barring him from making comments about court staff.

Judge Arthur Engoron threatened “severe sanctions” against Trump as he said the former president may have violated the gag order against him -- again.

Trump spoke to reporters in the courthouse hallway, where he took shots at the judge and "a person sitting beside him" as he returned from the morning break.

“This judge is a very partisan judge with a person who's very partisan alongside him, perhaps much more partisan than he is,” Trump said.

Engoron said he interpreted the comment as taking a shot at his principal law clerk, Allison Greenfield, whom Trump previously disparaged on social media -- prompting the judge to impose the gag order and fine him $5,000.

“This recent statement, assuming the AP is correct, obviously was intentional,” the judge said when the parties returned to court after the break Wednesday.

"I stated last time that a future violation would be severely punished … Why should there not be severe sanctions for this blatant, dangerous disobeyal of a clear court order?”

He added: "I'm very protective of my staff, as I believe I should be ... I don’t want anybody killed."

Trump attorney Christopher Kise jumped in and said the comments were actually about Michael Cohen, who is currently testifying at the civil fraud trial.

“I believe he’s talking about Michael Cohen, who is even more partisan,” Kise said, acknowledging Trump's team is “well aware” of the gag order Engoron imposed Oct. 3 after Trump took shots at Greenfield online and baselessly dubbed her “Schumer’s girlfriend.”

Trump, who sat slouched back in his seat, was asked by the judge whom he was referring to but he did not speak.

"Sitting alongside of him, sitting alongside of you, the way I would normally interpret those words is my principal law clerk,” Engoron said, before noting he would take the issue under advisory.

Cohen testified that he still has “animosity” toward Trump as his former boss stared him down from feet away inside the courtroom.

“Do I have animosity towards him? Yes, I do,” Cohen said while being cross-examined by Trump’s personal attorney, Alina Habba.

Cohen, wearing a dark blue blazer, white shirt and no tie, has mostly been looking at Habba during his hour-plus of testimony today – but has shot the occasional look toward Trump.

Trump had no noticeable reaction to his former personal lawyer's statement, but has whispered to the attorneys on both sides of him at the defense table at several points this morning.

Habba also suggested that Cohen may be upset at Trump because he did not receive a job at the White House after Trump was elected president in 2016.

But Cohen said he was satisfied working as Trump's special counsel and self-described "fixer."

“There is no shame in being personal attorney to the president,” Cohen replied.

Lawyers on both sides clashed during Cohen's cross-examination by Trump's attorneys.

Trump attorney Christopher Kise cried foul about “respect” inside the courtroom after an objection about whether some evidence should be admitted.

“They’re not being respectful to me,” griped Kise, following a heated back-and-forth with AG lawyer Colleen Faherty.

He then pointed at the attorney general’s lawyers seated across the courtroom.

“That group of attorneys over there, they asked your honor to sanction me!” Kise hissed while gesturing.

“I have suffered through an awful lot through the hands of the attorney general in this case. It is extraordinary," he added.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron told both sides that he wanted everyone to “respect” each other inside the courtroom.

Last week, Engoron forced Kise to apologize to two female lawyers for his “disrespectful” behavior in court.

It came after Kise sparred with the judge’s clerk Allison Greenfield, and questioned the intelligence of Faherty, according to Law360.

A testy exchange between one of Trump's attorneys and Michael Cohen prompted New York Attorney General Letitia James to call out "Objection" from her seat in the courtroom gallery.

During cross-examination, Trump lawyer Alina Habba asked Cohen if he had avoided being named as a defendant in the AG's $250 million lawsuit against his former boss by giving James a "road map" to investigating the ex-president.

“I don’t know. You can ask Tish James,” Cohen quipped.

James then raised her hand and said "Objection" from her seat in the front row, drawing laughs from some in the courtroom gallery.

Donald Trump blasted his former chief of staff Mark Meadows as he returned to Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday for his civil fraud trial — where Trump's ex-"fixer" Michael Cohen is testifying for the second day.

Wearing a blue suit and blue tie, Trump said Meadows — who was reportedly granted immunity in exchange for his testimony in the federal 2020 election interference case against Trump in Georgia — believed the election was “rigged and stolen.”

“He strongly believe the election was rigged," Trump said, adding, “And because it was rigged and stolen, our country has gone to hell.”

Donald Trump and his former “fixer” Michael Cohen are both back at a Manhattan courthouse Wednesday, after coming face to face for the first time in five years at the ex-president’s fraud trial Tuesday.

From the stand, Cohen claimed his old boss had him value his assets at “whatever number” Trump wanted.

“He would say, ‘I’m actually not worth $4.5 billion, I’m really worth more like 6 [billion],” Cohen recalled.

NY Attorney General Letitia James alleges Trump and his company fraudulently inflated the value of his assets for years to gain an edge in business.

The AG launched her investigation in February 2019, following Cohen’s testimony before Congress about his longtime former boss.

Trump ripped Cohen after trial wrapped for the day, telling reporters his former personal attorney and "fixer" can't be trusted as a witness.

“The witness is already totally discredited," Trump said as he left at around 4:30 p.m.

"They used somebody who is a felon," he added of the New York attorney general's office.

Trump's attorneys are expected to wrap their cross-examination of Cohen on Wednesday.