Trump legal team delays filing complaints against Comey until 'the appropriate time'

President Trump's legal team has decided to hold off on filing a pair of planned complaints against former FBI Director James Comey over his disclosures to the media, after hinting for weeks that the complaints were nearly completed.

Marc Kasowitz, Trump's personal lawyer, criticized Comey's "leaks" shortly after the former FBI director testified before Congress about private conversations he had with the president before his removal in early May. During that testimony, Comey admitted that he directed a friend to share details of those conversations with reporters in the hopes that the disclosures would motivate the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to oversee the Russia investigation.

Trump's legal team vowed at the time to file two complaints against Comey in response to his admission: one with the Senate Judiciary Committee, and one with the Justice Department Office of Inspector General. Kasowitz said Comey had revealed details from "privileged communications" with the president.

"The complaint and other submissions will be filed at the appropriate time," a source close to the legal team told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. Asked to clarify the anticipated timeline for the filings, the source said only that the complaints would be submitted "at an appropriate time in the future."

Although sources close to Trump's attorneys suggested in early June that the complaints would go out within days, and said as recently as last week that they planned to file imminently, the legal team reportedly postponed the move in an effort to soothe tensions between the administration and the special counsel investigating it.

Robert Mueller, who accepted an appointment to serve as special counsel in May, is looking into allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians during the presidential race. No evidence has surfaced to date that ties the Trump campaign to the Russian cyber-attacks that hit Democrats involved with the Hilary Clinton campaign.

Bloomberg first reported the decision to delay complaints against Comey.