'Dumb': Legal expert ridicules Trump lawyers' latest move in fraud trial

Donald Trump's legal team may have made a big blunder in its latest move, a legal expert said on Tuesday.

Trump, who has been fighting off a New York civil fraud case in which he has already been found liable, is still denying any fraudulent activity when it comes to the estimates of his worth. Those estimates and other Trump Organization filings were used to secure bank loans on favorable terms in violation of civil statutes, according to the prosecution.

The attorneys for Trump recently made a legal move that is raising eyebrows, at least for former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega. Specifically, she criticized the former president's legal team's decision to make his testimony the last one heard in the trial, calling the move "dumb."

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"Trump attys' choice to make Trump the last witness in the NY trial is...well, dumb," she said on social media on Tuesday. "What happens after a witness testifies on direct is, of course, cross-ex. Any benefit Trump's attys think his direct testimony provides will be destroyed by the time AG attys finish with him."

Former Wall Street Journal managing editor Bill Grueskin, now a professor, sarcastically showed that the ex-prosecutor was revealing important information.

"Didn’t you mean to say it’s absolutely brilliant, and clearly the AG doesn’t know what she’s up against with Alina Habba setting the snare," the journalist replied. Habba is Trump's attorney in the case.

Conservative lawyer and frequent Trump critic George Conway also chimed in on the ex-prosecutor's idea, simply saying, "Betsy" with several "shush" emojis.