Demand rises that White House staff take lie detector test, fire the ‘rats’

President Trump’s slam of the “coward” that wrote a scathing New York Times op-ed has been met with a call for all top aides to undergo a lie detector test.

Less than an hour after the president and his top staff slammed the nameless “senior official” who said the president is need of hand-holding on policy decisions, the group Americans for Limited Government suggested the polygraph testing.

[More: 7 points on the anonymous New York Times ‘resistance’ op-ed]

In a statement, the group’s president Rick Manning said, “Every single person within the White House, starting with the National Security Council staff, should be polygraphed and anyone who fails or refuses to take a lie detector should be shown the door. It is that simple. It is time to rid the White House of the vermin who joined the administration with a goal of undermining it.”

The administration has been saddled with critics, many left over from the Obama administration. The Times did not indicate when the anonymous critic was hired.

Said Manning:

“No president should be surrounded by simple yes men, but the author’s claim, that mirrors previous year-old media interviews with national security staff, demonstrates there are those within the White House staff who believe that they have the responsibility to veto decisions made by the duly elected President of the United States. The fact that President Trump hired a large number of staff which opposed his presidency was and is his original sin. And while it seems shocking now, the fact these rats are now inspired to anonymously undermine him may turn out for the best if it forces the President to clean house in favor of those who actually support his agenda of Making America Great Again.”

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