Former Vice President Dick Cheney thanked President Trump for pardoning his former chief of staff Scooter Libby for “phony” charges related to the leaking the identity of a CIA official.

“He was a totally innocent man, and I want to thank the president for having done that,” Cheney said of Trump’s decision in April to pardon Libby. “It was a good move, and lot of us who are familiar with the case who know and love Scooter Libby really appreciate the fact that he’s been deemed innocent, and that’s what should have happened. It was all a phony deal from the very beginning.”