Trump’s s videotaped testimony will be presented to a jury as a result of a prior judicial order which allowed the then-president to avoid having to testify in person while serving in the White House.
A spokeswoman for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump in July was ordered by Bronx Supreme Court Judge Doris Gonzalez to sit for the deposition, which was to be scheduled at a later date.
He and the plaintiffs later agreed that he would be deposed on Sept. 24, but that was postponed after his lawyers came back and said Trump was no longer available for that date, according to an order by Gonzalez last week.
The timing of Monday’s deposition was agreed to by Trump and the plaintiffs, according to that order, which first was reported Thursday by ABC News.
In addition to Trump, defendants in the lawsuit include his 2016 presidential campaign, the Trump Organization, and Keith Schiller, who had for years acted as Trump’s bodyguard.
The suit seeks damages for the actions of Trump’s security staff, during the Sept. 3, 2015, protest outside of Trump Tower, months after Trump announced his run for the Republican presidential nomination.
The plaintiffs, who are human rights activists of Mexican origin, say they were assaulted by Trump’s guards and had their signs destroyed by the guards during the event, which was protesting what they saw as Trump’s anti-Mexican immigrant racism.
Trump’s then-head of security Schiller is accused of punching one of the protestors, Efrain Galicia, in the head after Galicia tried to retrieve a sign that Schiller had ripped from his grasp.
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