Former President Donald Trump appealed a New York court ruling that found he committed fraud and removed his New York business certificates shortly after departing the trial on Wednesday.

Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told the Washington Examiner the former president was heading to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and would be out of the courtroom for the rest of the week. His departure comes after attending the civil fraud case brought by Attorney General Letitia James for three days in a row this week, as she declared the "Trump show is over" after he left.

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“I will not be bullied,” James said, referring to Trump's criticism of her case as a "witch hunt" and his Truth Social posts against her. “Justice will be served," she added.

The former president, who is seeking another bid for president in the 2024 race, has voluntarily taken time from the campaign trail to attend the trial that began on Monday. James's lawsuit seeks $250 million and claims his family business, the Trump Organization, deceived banks, insurers, and others by overestimating his net worth.

Attorneys for Trump on Wednesday appealed Democratic Judge Arthur Engoron's pretrial ruling from last week that held Trump committed fraud by inflating the value of some assets, including his Trump Tower penthouse and his Florida resort home. If upheld on appeal, the ruling could cost Trump control of his skyscraper on New York City's 5th Avenue and potentially other properties.

Much of Wednesday's trial surrounded statements by witness Donald Bender, an accountant for Trump's family business who said the company did not always supply documents needed to produce Trump's financial statements.

Bender at one point acknowledged that he did not notice a change in information about the size of the Trump Tower apartment, a comment defense lawyer Jesus Suarez seized upon, alleging Trump's company was now "going through hell" because "you missed it."

But Bender shot back, saying, "We didn’t screw it up. The Trump Organization made a mistake, and we didn’t catch it.”

Trump's departure on Wednesday isn't his last appearance in the trial, as he's said he will testify "at the appropriate time" before Engoron wraps the case, which will likely happen around early December. Additional testimony is expected from his adult sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., former company Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, and former controller Jeffery McConney.

Engoron on Tuesday responded to Trump's online criticism of the case with a narrow gag order against him after the former president targeted a principal law clerk on social media. The order informed all participants in the trial to not levy personal attacks on court staffers and told Trump to delete the "disparaging, untrue and personally identifying post."

The former president continued his railing against James and the judge on Wednesday, declaring several times that the case was a "witch hunt" and that he was being subjugated to a trial without a jury.

Engoron made clear at the start of a trial that Trump didn't request a jury. But had Trump made the request, prospective jurors would have been called from Manhattan, where President Joe Biden took more than 86% of the vote during the 2020 election.

Despite no requirement for Trump to attend the civil trial, he appeared to lament taking time away from the campaign trail in his final comments before leaving the courthouse on Wednesday.

"I would rather be right now in Iowa, I would rather be in New Hampshire or South Carolina or Ohio or a lot of other places, but I’m stuck here because I have a corrupt attorney general that communicates with the [Justice Department] in Washington to keep me nice and busy because I’m leading Biden in the polls by a lot," Trump said.

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Trump was indicted earlier this year by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of his 2016 election bid.

He is also facing a racketeering indictment in Georgia for alleged attempts to subvert the election there, a similar allegation at the federal level, and federal charges over alleged improper retention of classified materials, culminating in 91 charges across the board. He has pleaded not guilty to all of them.