Watch from court as Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial continues

Watch as Donald Trump returns to New York state court on Wednesday 25 October as the former US president’s lawyer and fixer testifies against him in a civil fraud case.

On his first day on the witness stand in his former employer’s blockbuster fraud trial, Mr Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen ended his testimony with a heated exchange with attorneys determined to undermine him.

Monday ended with Trump attorney Alina Habba cross-examining the one-time Trump Organization insider, and their showdown resumes today.

Minutes into his testimony, Mr Cohen got to the heart of the case: The former president allegedly instructed him to craft fraudulent financial documents around an “arbitrarily elected” value of his assets and net worth.

Those so-called statements of financial condition spanning several years are central to a civil fraud trial stemming from a lawsuit that accuses Mr Trump of defrauding banks and insurers by grossly overvaluing assets and exaggerating his net worth.

He returns to the witness stand on 25 October.