Key takeaways:
- A federal judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray can be deposed in a lawsuit brought by former FBI agent Peter Strzok.
- The depositions must be limited to two hours and a “narrow set of topics” that were discussed during the sealed hearing.
- The Biden White House must decide by late March whether the current president will assert executive privilege over conversations that Trump had directly.
A federal judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray can be deposed in a lawsuit brought by former FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the DC District Court held a sealed hearing Thursday morning, after which she issued a brief ruling. Strzok’s lawsuit alleges that Trump’s political vendetta prompted his firing and the public release of his texts, in violation of his constitutional rights and the Privacy Act.
The ruling ends a yearlong dispute over whether Strzok could question Trump and Wray under oath. The depositions must be limited to two hours and a “narrow set of topics” that were discussed during the sealed hearing.
Strzok and his former colleague, Lisa Page, filed separate lawsuits in 2019 against the Justice Department and the FBI alleging, in Page’s case, privacy violations and, in Strzok’s case, wrongful termination.
The Biden White House must decide by late March whether the current president will assert executive privilege over conversations that Trump had directly. Trump has long publicly disparaged Strzok and Page, who were frequent targets of his during his presidency.
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