Passive Aggressive Peer Gaslighting

I would assume a political operator would do things like take credit for other people's work or back bite eit negatively, viciously. Yet, gossip is a big piece of that, that the political operator's tool kit. You know, gossip even lying, i think, and you see this with passive aggressiveness too. The tormentor was suggested to me by a colleague on linkdon who said, you know, it's someone yo expect to be a mentor, but they actually just keep on kicking and kicking.