Given that its April 12 front page—the day that Hillary Clinton officially announced she was running for President—screamed “Oh Hill No!” and was followed in smaller type by 11 more “no’s,” you might have figured that the New York Post would greet Mayor de Blasio’s statement that morning that he wasn’t necessarily going to endorse her as the start of a beautiful friendship.
Instead, its front-page reaction the following day was “Traitor!” based on some Democratic Party officials contending the Mayor should have been jumping on the bandwagon the moment it rolled into town. A day later, the paper’s front page headline was “Hill’s Fury” and had her regarding Mr. de Blasio as a betrayer on par with her husband.
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