President Donald Trump criticized former FBI Director James Comey as a “bad,” “sick” person as his Justice Department considers indicting him before they are prevented from doing so because of the statute of limitations.

Despite Trump repeatedly putting pressure on the likes of Attorney General Pam Bondi to indict his political opponents and Erik Siebert, the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, being pushed from his post amid the same pressure campaign, Trump distanced himself from the prospect of an indictment on Thursday.

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“Well, I can’t tell you what’s going to happen because I don’t know,” Trump said at the White House. “You have very professional people headed up by the Attorney General, [Deputy Attorney General] Todd Blanche, and [new interim U.S. attorney] Lindsay Halligan, who’s very smart, good lawyer, very good lawyer. They’re going to make a determination. I’m not making that determination. I think I’d be allowed to get involved in the one. But I don’t really choose because I can only say that Comey is a bad person. He’s a sick person. I think he’s a sick guy. Actually, he did terrible things at the FBI.”

MSNBC reported this week that the indictment against Comey, which is expected to be filed in the coming days with a federal court in Virginia, could cover criminal charges related to the testimony Comey provided to Congress in 2020 regarding whether he had authorized a 2016 leak to the Wall Street Journal about then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton‘s email use.

According to reports, Halligan, who has acted as a personal attorney for Trump in the past, has been briefed by lawyers that there is not enough evidence to establish probable cause that a crime was committed, with the five-year statute of limitations for lying to Congress to expire next Tuesday.

Trump and Comey have been at odds since the president’s first administration when the president asked the then-FBI director not to investigate then-national security adviser Michael Flynn over meetings he took with then-Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. Trump went on to fire Comey.

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“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 wrote last weekend on social media of Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and New York Attorney General Leticia James.

He added: “Then we almost put in a Democrat supported U.S. Attorney, in Virginia, with a really bad Republican past. A Woke RINO, who was never going to do his job. That’s why two of the worst Dem Senators PUSHED him so hard. He even lied to the media and said he quit, and that we had no case. No, I fired him.”