Trump Says ‘Leaker’ Charged With Lying to FBI Is ‘Very Important’—Here’s Why

President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs the White House June 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Canada to attend the G7 summit before heading to Singapore on Saturday for a planned U.S.-North Korea summit. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the former Senate aide indicted on Thursday by a federal prosecutor in Washington was “a very important leaker.”

James Wolfe, the director of security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for over 30 years, was charged with three counts of making false statements to investigators about his contacts with four reporters.