Story highlights The complaint will focus on Comey admitting he gave a friend the content of memos

The Justice Department has limited jurisdiction over former employees

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump's legal team, in the wake of damning testimony from James Comey, plans to file a complaint against the former FBI director with the Justice Department Inspector General and the Senate judiciary committee early next week, two sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN.

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 Justice Department again.

As a businessman, Trump had a long history of threatening legal action. But the businessman-turned-president rarely followed through on those claims.

If @TedCruz doesn't clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 12, 2016

During the 2016 campaign, Trump threatened to sue Sen. Ted Cruz, his primary opponent, multiple times, along with the Republican Party of Louisiana, The Washington Post, The New York Times and the women who accused him of sexual misconduct.

None of those lawsuits were ever filed.

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