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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBolton's already calling another WH staffer a "munchkin"
He was criticizing whoever leaked the fact that Trump was warned "DO NOT CONGRATULATE" Putin.
Criticizing whoever leaked that is something you'd expects from a Trump loyalist.
But the name-calling, especially the belittling (pun intended) of that person as a "munchkin," shows Bolton's ego is already out of control.
And that "munchkin" could very well be in a position to leak info that will make Bolton look bad.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/379873-bolton-completely-unacceptable-for-munchkin-in-white-house-to-leak-info
Editing to add that this is an insult Bolton has used before, causing trouble in the State Department during the Bush administration:
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/22/17153338/john-bolton-national-security-adviser-trump-hr-mcmaster
Bolton took the hardest of possible lines. He forcefully argued that Iraq had WMDs we are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction, as he put in one 2002 speech. After Bushs 2002 State of the Union speech connecting North Korea, Iraq, and Iran as an axis of evil, Bolton insisted that this wasnt just rhetoric that there was a hard connection between these regimes an axis along which flow dangerous weapons and dangerous technology.
He was involved in shaping US intelligence in the runup to the war and not in a good way. In 2002, Boltons staff prepared a speech alleging that Cuba had an active biological weapons program. This wasnt true, and the State Departments lead bioweapons analyst at the time would not sign off on the claim. Per the analysts sworn testimony to Congress, Bolton then called the analyst into his office, screamed at him, and then sent for his boss. In this conversation, per the Washington Posts David Ignatius, he derisively referred to the analyst as a munchkin and attempted to get him transferred to a different department.
This was cruel and unprofessional, but also dangerous. Carl Ford, then the assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, testified that Boltons assault on the analyst had a chilling effect throughout the department, freezing out dissent on proliferation issues beyond Cuba. John Prados, a fellow at George Washington Universitys National Security Archives, came to an even broader conclusion in a study of declassified Bush administration documents: Bolton bears a significant amount of blame for the politicized intelligence used to justify the decision to attack Iraq.
highplainsdem
(48,974 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)And he's calling people names?
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)Thing is, mine isn't pure white while having almost no white hair on my head. Bits of gray, yes. Bits of gray in my hair, yes.
Why is that guy almost gray free on the head but his mustache is snow white? Hmmmm!
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Trump & Bolton don't need anybody but each other to run the whole show.
These two egomaniacs are that arrogant.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)before Trump boots him out...
The WH isn't big enough for both of their egos.
And musical chairs seems to be the game of the year.
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)Cha
(297,187 posts)JawJaw
(722 posts)is from his interview with John Pilger, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq.
Bolton confuses (Tony Blair's) Labour Party with the Communist Party!
Such insight into foreign affairs!
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)by Bolton towards persons with opinions that challenge his warmongering paranoia. Last night, she reported on one where Bolton was screaming like a crazy man in front of witnesses to the event.
He's an emotional bully like trump. This won't be pretty when it ends.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)* Bigliest KGOP War Bully in mewling service to the historically ignoble Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
n2doc
(47,953 posts)I give him 6 weeks before he is fired.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)If so, it sounds like Bolton has already started his first war, and it's right inside the White House.
superpatriotman
(6,247 posts)Never forget.