Bolton'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 Bush’s 2002 State of the Union speech connecting North Korea, Iraq, and Iran as an “axis of evil,” Bolton insisted that this wasn’t 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, Bolton’s staff prepared a speech alleging that Cuba had an active biological weapons program. This wasn’t true, and the State Department’s lead bioweapons analyst at the time would not sign off on the claim. Per the analyst’s 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 Post’s 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 Bolton’s 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 University’s 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.
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* Bigliest KGOP War Bully in mewling service to the historically ignoble Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
If so, it sounds like Bolton has already started his first war, and it's right inside the White House.
