WASHINGTON (CN) - President Donald Trump on Friday said he is "100 percent" willing to testify under oath about his meetings with former FBI director James Comey, complaining that many things Comey said during the extraordinary public session "just weren't true."
The president's comments during a joint press conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis capped a day on which it was revealed Trump's personal attorney plans to file a complaint against former FBI Director James Comey for details he revealed during his congressional testimony on Thursday.
According to sources close to Trump's legal team, attorney Marc Kasowitz will spend Friday preparing to file a complaint against Comey early next week with the Justice Department's inspector general.
The complaint will focus on Comey's revelation that he asked a friend, Columbia Law School professor Daniel Richman, to act as a conduit for passing notes to a New York Times reporter.
Those notes, written by Comey, detail his private conversations with the president about former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
Kasowitz, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, is also expected to file a submission with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Reports of the pending filings prompted a swift response from Norman Eisen, the former special counsel for ethics and government reform under President Barack Obama. Eisen said he is preparing to defend Comey should the Trump legal team move ahead with filing the complaints.
“This is an abuse of process, and we will be filing a defense of Comey,” Eisen wrote on Twitter Friday morning.
Trump did not comment on whether complaints will actually be filed during his Rose Garden press conference, and he was coy when reporters ask him if there were tapes of his exchanges with Comey.
"Well, I'll tell you about that maybe sometime in the very near future," the president said
However, Trump did not restrain himself from taking a few jabs at Comey, calling him a "leaker" and saying his testimony "confirmed what I've been saying about him" -- presumably a reference to his calling the former FBI director a "showboat" after his firing.
The president also said he never told Comey he hoped investigation of fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn go away.
Still, Trump evidently didn't think Comey's testimony was all bad, contending it proved there was "no collusion, no obstruction" on the president's part.
Trump was initially uncharacteristically reserved about about Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, only breaking his silence on the matter on Twitter Friday morning.
The president chose not to directly comment on Comey's testimony while it was transpiring Thursday or immediately afterward, but shortly before dawn on Friday he tweeted, "Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication ... and WOW, Comey is a leaker."
During much of the increasingly heated debate surrounding the FBI's investigation of Russia's role in the election, Trump has chafed over news leaks, arguing that news organizations had not given them proper attention.