Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Thursday he doesn't think President Donald Trump has obstructed justice by firing FBI Director James Comey, but that he would like to see the president focus on running the country instead of 'swirling controversies.'

Asked Thursday during an event at Boston College if he thought Trump had crossed that legal line in connection with Comey, Bush replied: "No, I don't, but who cares what I think?"

"It would be great to get back to the business of governing and less about the swirling controversies," Bush said, according to The Boston Herald. "I just think the president needs to focus on doing his job."

Trump has denied parts of Comey's accounts of their conversations between the election and when Trump fired the former FBI director on May 9, particularly Comey's claims that Trump sought a pledge of Comey's loyalty and that he asked Comey to drop an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

On Friday morning, Trump suggested Comey lied under oath, which would be a felony.

"Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication," the president tweeted. "...and WOW, Comey is a leaker!"

In testimony before the Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, Comey confirmed that he told Trump on multiple occasions that he was not personally under FBI investigation, but declined to offer judgment on whether Trump committed obstruction of justice in pressing him to back off of Flynn.

"I don't think it's for me to say whether the conversation I had with the president was an effort to obstruct," Comey testified, going on to reference former FBI chief Robert Mueller's appointment to lead the federal probe covering potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. "I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning, but that's a conclusion I'm sure the special counsel will work towards to try and understand what the intention was there, and whether that's an offense."

Bush – who was dubbed 'low-energy' by Trump and often clashed with him when both were candidates for the GOP presidential nomination in the 2016 cycle – acknowledged that while he isn't a "big fan" of Trump and did not vote for him in November, he supports some of his choices as president.

"There are great opportunities for him to hire people," Bush said. "He's done pretty well there. The judicial appointments have been good, he's got a great foreign policy team, he should be president and stop creating all the controversies – let that process takes its place."

But Bush also said Trump could improve in following through on his pledge to reduce the influence of money and insiderism in Washington.