Mike Pompeo pauses while speaking during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be Secretary of State in Washington. With Pompeo in some peril, the White House and Republicans deployed the nuclear option of talking points: questioning their opponents’ patriotism. “Look, at some point, Democrats have to decide whether they love this country more than they hate this president,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday morning on Fox News. Trump at the time suggested that those Democrats might be guilty of treason, which the White House clarified was just a joke. But comments from the official GOP and the White House were more veiled.

Source: Washington Post April 23, 2018 18:21 UTC