President Donald Trump maintained Thursday that he doesn't know whether his Department of Justice will indict former FBI director James Comey.

“I can't tell you what's going to happen because I don't know,” he said to reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Trump said his lawyers will make the decision and specifically named deputy attorney general Todd Blanche and the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan.

Trump, who dislikes Comey because of his investigation into Russian ties to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, disparaged Comey as a “sick” and “bad” person.

The Justice Department is preparing to ask a grand jury as soon as Thursday to indict Comey on allegations that he lied to Congress as prosecutors approach a legal deadline for bringing charges, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Prosecutors have been evaluating whether Comey lied to lawmakers during his Sept. 30, 2020, testimony related to the investigation into ties between Russia and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

The five-year statute of limitations for bringing a case would be next Tuesday, but the Justice Department is expected to seek an indictment before a grand jury before then, said the two people, who were not authorized to discuss an investigation by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.