Papadopoulos: Trump trashes ‘low level’ indicted aide

US President Donald Trump has played down the importance of an ex-campaign aide indicted in the Russia inquiry. He said his onetime foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was a “low level volunteer” and “liar”. Mr Trump once called him an “excellent guy”.  Papadopoulos, 30, this month pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his […]

US President Donald Trump has played down the importance of an ex-campaign aide indicted in the Russia inquiry.

He said his onetime foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was a “low level volunteer” and “liar”. Mr Trump once called him an “excellent guy”. 

Papadopoulos, 30, this month pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Kremlin-related contacts. 

Two other ex-aides have been charged as part of the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.

In Tuesday morning’s tweets, Mr Trump attempted to deflect scrutiny on to the Democratic party, or his tax reform proposals.

He tweeted: “The Fake News is working overtime. As Paul Manaforts [sic] lawyer said, there was ‘no collusion’ and events mentioned took place long before he came to the campaign.