Blas nods to tragic dad in $$ bid
Admits she ‘made mistakes’ on ancestry
Mayor de Blasio — trying to jump-start his White House bid — invoked his war-hero father’s suicide in a bid for donor dollars.
“Did you see Bill on the Daily Show? It’s a must-watch,” opens a campaign e-mail blasted out over the weekend, referencing Hizzoner’s appearance on the Comedy Central series last Wednesday.
“In the interview, Bill talks about his proven commitment to working people — but he also discusses something you may not have heard him talk about before: his father’s suicide,” the message continues. “Bill discussed how it informed his approach to mental health care and overseeing the largest police force in the nation.”
The next line of the e-mail includes two links: One to watch “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah’s interview with de Blasio, and another to “contribute $1 to help power this campaign.”
De Blasio previously mentioned his World War II-veteran father’s suicide — which occurred when the future mayor was 18 — last week in a department-wide letter to the NYPD, which has been rocked this year by the suicides of nine cops.
In that message, de Blasio pledged that “help is always here” — just days after First Lady Chirlane McCray’s mental-health initiative, ThriveNYC, pulled out of a seminar for troubled first responders, as revealed by The Post.
City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-SI), whose office was helping to organize the event, said Thrive withdrew because the pro-cop group Blue Lives Matter was a cosponsor, a claim the mayor has denied.
Elizabeth Warren admitted Monday that she had “made mistakes” regarding her claims of Native American ancestry, which led to President Trump dubbing her “Pocahontas.”
“Like anyone who’s been honest with themselves, I know that I have made mistakes,” the Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate said at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa, without specifying exactly what she was apologizing for.
“I am sorry for harm I have caused. I have listened and I have learned a lot, and I am grateful for the many conversations we have had together,” she said.
Warren’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the nature of her apology, but it followed an introduction from Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), a Native American who said that the controversy and President Trump’s attacks were only a diversion from his own record in the Oval Office.
Warren, she added, was “my sister in the struggle” for Native rights and against the commander in chief.
Warren was slammed earlier this year when she announced DNA test results that showed she had a fractional amount — between 1/64 and 1/1028 — of Native American ancestry. She has since apologized for saying she identified as a Native American based on “family lore.”
Warren’s team removed the parts of her campaign Web site that included her claims of having Native American heritage.
But the site until Sunday included a video of the Massachusetts senator getting the results of the DNA test, The Daily Caller reported.
At the forum, Warren also spoke of the need for the federal government to do more to assist Native American tribes.
Invitations to the event were sent to all of the major-party presidential candidates, including Trump, but only a handful of Democratic candidates responded, including Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Mayor de Blasio and Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
At the end, several in the audience got up as Warren walked offstage. “Honor the 1868 Fort Laramie treaty,” one man yelled.
“Reintroduce the Bradley bill,” a female protester demanded.
Both were referring to moves in which land would be returned to the Sioux tribe.
Trump, meanwhile, mentioned “the Pocahontas thing” at a MAGA rally in New Hampshire last week.
“I did the Pocahontas thing. I hit her really hard and it looked like she was down and out but that was too long ago,” he said. “But don’t worry, we will revive it.”