President Trump said Thursday he didn’t know if former FBI Director James Comey would be indicted after issuing a direct call for Attorney General Pam Bondi to do so over the weekend.

“I can’t tell you what’s going to happen because I don’t know yet. Very professional people, headed up by the attorney general, [Deputy Attorney General] Todd Blanche and [Interim attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia] Lindsey Halligan, who’s very smart. Good lawyer, very good lawyer. They’re going to make a determination,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

“I’m not making that determination. I think I’d be allowed to get involved if I want, but I don’t really choose to do so,” Trump said.

Trump was asked about Comey’s potential indictment while holding a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He bashed the former FBI director while insisting he isn’t aware of the next moves from the Justice Department.

“I can only say that Comey’s a bad person, he’s a sick person. I think he’s a sick guy actually, he did terrible things at the FBI,” Trump said. “But I don’t know, I have no idea what’s going to happen.”

Comey is expected to be indicted soon, MSNBC first reported, after Halligan took over the case from Erik Siebert, the former attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Siebert stepped down rather than bring charges against Comey.

Halligan practiced insurance law before she joined Trump’s criminal defense team in 2022 and has never tried a federal case.

Trump directed a message to Bondi on Truth Social on Saturday, saying there is a “great case” against Comey, among others, and asking her to not delay.

“Pam: I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that, essentially, ‘same old story as last time, all talk, no action. Nothing is being done. What about Comey, Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, Leticia??? They’re all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done,’” Trump posted.

The president has long called for charges against Comey, a Trump critic, based on his congressional testimony on Sept. 30, 2020 on the investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. The five-year statute of limitations on the testimony occurs Tuesday.