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.

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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:

