The mayor’s best hope: more pigs to pardon

Somebody’s feeling the heat: Mayor de Blasio stormed out of his own press conference Tuesday after The Post’s Yoav Gonen inquired about Hizzoner’s pending sit-down with US Attorney Preet Bharara and a second reporter followed with another “off-topic”...

The mayor’s best hope: more pigs to pardon

Somebody’s feeling the heat: Mayor de Blasio stormed out of his own press conference Tuesday after The Post’s Yoav Gonen inquired about Hizzoner’s pending sit-down with US Attorney Preet Bharara and a second reporter followed with another “off-topic” question.

Usually, when journalists defy de Blasio’s rules to limit their queries, the mayor just grumbles “on-topic questions only,” then calls on someone else. This time, he didn’t stick around to try pushing his topic.

Seems he’s no longer in a mood to even hear impertinent questions.

It’s been a rough week. The Bharara interview could signify that indictments are (finally) coming down in the federal and state corruption probes of how his team does business — especially with big donors.

Then, too, a state judge is showing skepticism about de Blasio’s effort to dodge the Freedom of Information Law by declaring several top lobbyists “agents of the city” because they also consult for him.

Plus, the Department of Investigation audited a city hearing on that “program” that handed $60 million (above the contracted amount, for no added benefit to the city) to a bus company tied to a prime de Blasio donor.

And little children keep turning up dead despite being on the radar of de Blasio’s Administration for Children’s Services, which DOI just exposed as massively dysfunctional.

Each bit of news pokes another hole in his image as an honest progressive — and makes him seem just another transactional pol who rewards donors and hacks.

The only truly sweet headline the mayor’s been able to win recently came from “pardoning” that Staten Island pig.

But the five boroughs don’t have enough “service swine” to last him long.

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