In less than 10 minutes on the witness stand, the soft-spoken Ivanka Trump was twice asked by the judge to speak a little louder and he also asked her to move closer to the microphone.

She seems comfortable and cooperative on the stand as she recounts her work history.

The Trump family dynamics will be on display here today as Ivanka Trump appears completely separate from the family. She is the first member not to sit at the defense table before taking the stand and it will be on everyone’s minds how much she tries to distance herself from her family and the family business.

The siblings split their defense strategy in early March when Ivanka Trump, who had been using the same attorneys as her brothers, decided to hire her own personal attorney, Bennett Moskowitz. Moskowitz is her sole attorney and previously represented the estate of Jeffrey Epstein. 

Ivanka Trump is now on the stand to begin her testimony.

The 25th and last witness for the state, the former White House aide entered the courtroom smiling and wearing a black pantsuit and white shirt.

Photographers captured Ivanka Trump coming out of her apartment at 502 Park Ave., the same building where Michael Cohen also lives. It is likely that the apartment will be brought up today to discuss her option to purchase it for $8 million when the company was valuing it for $25 million. 

Ahead of his daughter's testimony in Manhattan, Trump posted on Truth Social, attacking James as a fraud and referring to Engoron as a "Trump Hating, out of control Clubhouse appointed Judge."

"It is Letitia James and the Judge who are Fraudulent for setting such LOW VALUATIONS in order to undermine and discredit my Financial Statements, thereby making me look bad — Election Interference," he wrote. "Now they are trying to bring Ivanka into the case, despite the Court of Appeals ruling that she cannot be charged. Sad!"

The former president testified Monday and quickly went off the rails in his answers, using his time on the stand to lash out at Engoron and James’ office for what he said was their “unfair” treatment.

• Trump fumed about Kevin Wallace, the lawyer from James’ office who was questioning him: “You and every other Democrat … coming after me from 15 different sides … all haters.”
• Trump repeatedly blasted James from the stand, calling her a “political hack” and her office "haters."
• Trump sparred with Engoron from the stand after the judge scolded him for going off on tangents while answering questions. Trump said the judge would “rule against me because he will always rule against me.” Engoron replied that Trump’s statement wasn't true and again asked him to answer the question: “You can attack me all you want, but just answer the question,” the judge said.
• After Trump continued going off topic, Engoron urged his lawyers to “control him,” saying the trial was “not a political rally.” At one point, after once again telling Trump's lawyers to rein in his answers and getting pushback, the judge raised his voice and told Trump attorney Alina Habba, “I am not here to hear what he has to say, now sit down!”
• Trump repeatedly downplayed the importance of his annual statements of financial condition and claimed he barely paid attention to them before suggesting that the statements were too conservative: “My net worth is financially more than what were on the financial statements. Therefore you have no case,” he said.
• Trump said he relied on information from his accountants for his financial statements and “was not involved in any way,” despite other witnesses, including former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and Trump’s accountant Donald Bender, having testified otherwise.

In her deposition in August last year, Ivanka Trump said she didn’t recall an email she wrote that said: “My father will send you his most recent financial statement.”

Similar to her brother Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump said in her deposition: “I mean, we have a huge business and we have assets and each one of them has tons of both projections and statements.”

Asked whether she had any recollection of her father having personal financial statements, she replied: “Not especially.”

Asked about generally having a recollection of her father’s personal financial statements, she said: “I combine them all in my mind, like statements of the company and — so I — no, I mean not like specific to him.”

Ivanka Trump also said she had “never prepared” a statement of financial condition. “I’ve never prepared one, I’ve never made one. I’m not an accountant,” she said.

We expect the direct exam to last most of the day and we may begin the cross which will go into tomorrow. On Monday, the defense will begin to present its case, which defense attorney Chris Kise says will last until Dec. 15.

The mood in the courtroom is much more relaxed today than it was Monday when the former president testified and the tension was high. The room is filling up but there are still a fair amount of seats available.

Prosecutors are here and James is in her seat in the front row. Prosecutor Louis Solomon will conduct the questioning of Ivanka Trump.