At the 22 October 2026 hearing Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett ordered Donald Trump to sit for his deposition by 11 December 2026, before the 18 December discovery deadline, as BBC News and The Guardian reported; the court record shows the hearing with a written order still to follow.
Hunch. The court set the 22 October hearing for a different BBC request, and Donald Trump's side has until 27 October to answer the request about his questioning.
The date market resolves on the court's case record on CourtListener, a copy of the official US court records: YES if by 11.59pm Miami time on 23 October 2026 a court order names a day, or a latest day, on or before 18 December 2026 for Donald Trump to answer questions under oath. NO if there is no such order, if the court puts the matter off, allows the questioning with no date or accepts a date in January, and The Guardian and BBC News settle it if the record is not updated.
We looked for cases where a US federal court decided whether a current or former US president must answer questions under oath in a civil lawsuit. We found four such decisions from 1975 to 2023. Three of them were about Donald Trump.