A US judge on Thursday ordered former President Donald Trump to be questioned in lawsuits filed by two former FBI employees who say they were the targets of an improper political pressure campaign by his White House, Reuters reported.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that FBI Director Christopher Wray must also testify, along with lawyers for the couple, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who were among several FBI agents who exchanged messages critical of Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. year, the reports were later leaked to the media.

In a brief order, the judge said Trump must submit to a two-hour questioning on a “narrow set” of topics and that Wray must be questioned under the same limited parameters.

Jackson gave President Joe Biden until March 24 to decide whether to invoke executive authority to limit the screenings.

Strzok and Page were instrumental in Trump’s claims that the FBI was politically biased against him.

Strzok, an FBI special agent who worked on the investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia and Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, sued him in 2019, alleging that his 2018 firing was the result of political pressure from Trump. . He claims that he was fired unfairly.

In turn, Page filed a breach of privacy lawsuit over the leaked messages.

The Justice Department said Strzok was fired for violating FBI policy and undermining the bureau’s credibility.

Both Trump and Wray have resisted subpoenas to testify.