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The former US President Donald Trump began the second day of his civil fraud trial on Tuesday by speaking out against the New York state attorney general before entering a courtroom where he could be barred from doing business in the state.

Trump, who is fighting a legal battle on multiple fronts, called Attorney General Letitia James "extremely corrupt" and "grossly inept" in her characteristic combative attitude before the trial began. James is demanding $250 million in fines and the disbarment of Trump and his two sons from running the family empire.

Trump, leading among Republican candidates in the 2024 pre-election with''by a wide margin, was not required to attend the first two days of the trial but chose to do so, taking a seat at the defense table next to his attorneys.

The civil trial came after Judge Arthur Engoron had already found that Trump and his sons Eric and Don Jr. committed fraud by inflating the value of the Trump Organization's real estate and financial assets over several years. The court ruling said the three Trumps and other Trump Organization executives lied to tax collectors, creditors and insurers in a scheme that exaggerated the value of their properties by $812 million to $2.2 billion from 2014 to 2021.

The civil trial, which began this week, has Judge Engoron sitting in the courtroom with full authority to decide Trump's fate - which, however, hasn't stopped the former president from making statements about a "horny" Democratic judge who he believes should be "disbarred." Also in the courtroom Tuesday were Don Jr. and Eric, as well as Attorney General James.

On Monday, Trump called the case a "fabrication" designed to counter his efforts to return to the White House next year and called James, an African-American woman, a "racist." The 77-year-old ex-leader, who made his name and fortune in the 1980s as a real estate mogul, may lose control of many''s flagship properties such as Trump Tower on Manhattan's iconic Fifth Avenue.

The New York case is the first of a number of upcoming trials for the former president. Trump is scheduled to appear before a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2024, on charges of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden. After that, Trump will be back in state court in New York, this time on charges of paying hush money to a porn star, and then in federal court in Florida, where he is accused of mishandling classified documents after leaving office. Finally, he must also answer to charges from the state of Georgia, where prosecutors allege Trump illegally tried''change the outcome of the 2020 election in your favor.