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[....] After an August 2015 story in The Wall Street Journal, the mayor thought made him look bad, political consultant Del Cecato suggested a tactic to fight back utilized by President Trump — go after people via vitriolic tweets.

"Maybe I'm channeling Louis CK here but I feel people on the outside (like me) should be assigned a duty like going after our opponents and just delivering that via Twitter," Del Cecato wrote.

The mayor's then-press secretary, Phil Walzak then referenced a notorious Republican tactic from the Watergate playbook known as "ratf---ing."

The term was used in the 1970s by Richard Nixon's reelection committee flunkies to describe pranks designed to secretly attack Democrats.

Walzak replied, "Yeah I like that. You can be outside rat...r on twitter."

"Happy to do it," Del CeCato replied. "Just let me know when I start."

The release of emails from January 2014 into 2017 marked a total reversal for the mayor, who had city lawyers spend untold hours aggressively fighting to keep them secret [....]

the related editorial, with today's print cover page as its illustration

Bill de Blasio, mayor of fantasyland: His utterly delusional rant against the 'corporate media' and 'tabloid culture'

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| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | MAY 25, 2018 | 3:12 PM