Mayor Bill de Blasio. | Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Clinton aides mocked 'terrorist' de Blasio's public flirtation with Sanders

Two Clinton campaign aides referred mockingly to Mayor Bill de Blasio in internal emails as a "terrorist" as de Blasio publicly flirted with the possibility of endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders for president against his former boss, Hillary Clinton.

In an exchange that was released along with other hacked emails by WikiLeaks, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook wrote, "Wow. What a terrorist".


In response, campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri wrote, “Told you!”

Mook and Palmieri were reacting to tweets from a POLITICO New York reporter.

One of the tweets quoted de Blasio's response to a question about whether he planned to attend an upcoming Clinton rally. The mayor said that he wouldn't because he was still "waiting to hear ... her larger vision" on income inequality.

Another tweet quoted de Blasio saying shortly afterward, "I’ve always liked what I heard from Bernie Sanders."

Two days after the exchange, at an event hosted by POLITICO, Mook called de Blasio a “good friend.”

POLITICO recently reported that de Blasio attempted to coordinate with the Clinton campaign even as he maintained his public posture of neutrality in the Democratic primary, and that top Clinton aide Huma Abedin sought help managing the apparently burdensome relationship.

The Clinton campaign and the mayor's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

You can see the email exchange here: http://bit.ly/2dMoewl