President Donald Trump attacked James Comes as a “sick guy” on Thursday but denied any direct involvement in reported efforts by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia to manufacture a criminal case against the former FBI director.
Trump was speaking to reporters ahead of a bilateral lunch meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan at the White House on Thursday, a day after MSNBC and other news outlets reported that prosecutor’s in Virginia were preparing to file criminal charges against Comey.