Trump’s private lawyer is moving quickly to file a complaint against Comey for leaking the content of his meetings with Trump to the media:
BREAKING: Trump's private lawyer to file leak complaint against Comey with DOJ's Inspector General & Senate Judiciary Cmte.
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) June 9, 2017
Here’s more from an earlier report on CNN:
President Donald Trump’s outside attorney plans to file a complaint against former FBI Director James Comey with the Justice Department Inspector General and the Senate judiciary committee, two sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
The complaint will focus on Comey’s testimony that he gave a friend the content of memos about his conversations with Trump and asked the friend to then give that information to a reporter. Comey said Friday that he gave the friend — later identified as Daniel Richman, a longtime Comey confidante and Columbia University professor — the information after Trump tweeted that he may have tapes of his conversations with the fired FBI director.
The Justice Department, however, has limited jurisdiction over former employees. They can investigate but the remedy in the event of finding wrongdoing would be to make a note in Comey’s file should he ever seek to be employed by the DOJ again.
I guess Trump is trying to avoid conflict of interest by having his private lawyer file the complaint? Or maybe he just wants to keep the White House from having to answer for any of this, as they can all deflect question about this to Trump’s private attorney.