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Posted: 2021-10-14T23:42:04Z | Updated: 2021-10-14T23:42:04Z

A New York judge has ordered former President Donald Trump to give a videotaped deposition next week in a lawsuit by a group of protesters who allege that Trump and his security team assaulted them during a 2015 rally against his hateful rhetoric about Mexican immigrants.

The order by Bronx state Supreme Court judge Doris Gonzalez, which ABC News first reported Thursday , says that Trump must appear for a deposition on Oct. 18 at 10 a.m. Eastern, or, in the event of illness or emergency, on another mutually agreed to date on or before Oct. 31. The former president is expected to record the deposition on Monday in New York Citys Trump Tower, according to court papers.

The lawsuit by several protesters of Mexican descent names Trump, the Trump Organization, his former head of security Keith Schiller and four unnamed members of Trumps then-security team. Schiller became director of Oval Office operations under Trump in 2017, and later that year, the Republican National Committee hired him as an adviser on security for the 2020 convention.

The lawsuit stems from a Sept. 3, 2015, protest outside Trump Tower over the then-presidential candidates inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants . Trump repeatedly blamed undocumented immigrants for the United States problems and called people crossing the border from Mexico criminals and rapists. The xenophobic rhetoric during his campaign only intensified when he became president.