“Does anybody believe this guy??? A Dirty Cop!!!” Trump wrote in the Saturday evening post on Truth Social.
The comments come as a judge has set a July 15 trial date for Comey to face two criminal charges stemming from the Instagram post he made in May last year. The longtime Trump foe, whom the president fired as FBI Director in 2017 as the agency was investigating possible ties between Russia and the Trump presidential campaign, has denied wrongdoing and framed the charges as political retribution.
U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan will oversee the trial in North Carolina, and Comey is due in court on June 30 for arraignment, where he is expected to enter a not guilty plea.
Trump’s DOJ is increasingly investigating political opponents
The indictment of Comey follows a wave of criminal charges and investigations filed by the Justice Department against Trump’s political rivals during his second term, among them Letitia James, the New York Attorney General who successfully brought a civil fraud case against the Trump Organization, and Adam Schiff, the Democratic senator and former Congressman who previously served as lead manager during Trump’s first impeachment.