How does Hillary Clinton get past her e-mail mess? Here’s betting she’ll employ a tried-and-true tactic from President Obama’s bag of tricks: class warfare of the banker-bashing variety.

Here’s the funny thing: The media may take the bait, but the fat cats won’t buy it. They know she’s really their pal, just saying what she “needs to.”

This isn’t really my prediction: It’s the insight of the people who have seen this cheap act before — the senior executives at the major New York-based banks.

They tell me that they’re bracing for Hillary to deliver some of the same treatment handed out by Obama whenever he got himself in trouble.

Yep: Despite all the love showered on Hillary by the likes of Goldman Sachs (recall the $400 grand Goldman Sachs paid the ex- secretary of state to hear her speak for a couple of hours), these same Wall Streeters think she won’t be able to resist the allure of a cheap headline or two in the coming weeks and months in the form of class warfare against the nation’s top financial institutions.

It’s actually a two-fer, designed to pull the press off that messy e-mail scandal, and help the party’s lefty base forget that her best friends reside on Wall Street.

It worked for Obama.

With his poll numbers plummeting en route to his 2010 midterm “shellacking,” the president opted to “forget” the tons of campaign cash sent his way by the likes of Goldman in 2008 — and went on the offensive.

First came the “60 Minutes” interview where he referred to his Wall Street buddies like Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein and JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon as “fat cats.”

Then he unleashed Attorney General Eric Holder to squeeze every last dollar from the banker buddies in settlements over various misdeeds that somehow went unnoticed until it was politically useful to bring them up.

And it didn’t stop with the banks at the heart of the 2008 collapse. The president and his lefty allies also targeted folks who had nothing to do with the mortgage meltdown: hedge funds and the private-equity biz.

Private equity is a true engine of economic growth, where investors buy out companies with the goal of making them bigger and more profitable.

It had nothing to do with banking or the 2008 meltdown. But by the end of the 2012 campaign, many voters didn’t know the difference after Obama got done bashing private-equity firm Bain Capital.

Bain got hit, of course, because it had long been run by Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

The Obamaites not only painted Romney as lord of a supposed house of horrors responsible for massive layoffs, pain and suffering, they even suggested in one ad that Romney actually killed a worker’s wife by taking away his health insurance. (In fact, the insurance went away years after Bain took over that company.)

Wall Street expects — hopes — Hillary’s attacks will be a bit more nuanced. After all, major corporations and banks have been mainstays of her and Bill’s brand of crony capitalism for decades.

The banks plowed big money into Bill Clinton’s campaign later and received numerous favors from the White House — from the bailout over losses tied to the Mexican peso, to a bailout after the collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital, to massive deregulation that led to big bank mergers and even bigger profits.

Well, big profits until the 2008 meltdown proved how reckless that deregulation really was.

Even out of government, the Clintons never strayed far away from the money men — and for good reason. Wall Street, after all, is where the money is.

As we’re finding out, the Clinton Foundation — the charitable arm of Clinton Inc. — turned out be a wonderful way for Bill and Hillary to keep close to banks and major corporations (not to mention a few foreign governments).

The foundation may do good work, but companies like Goldman Sachs (which all have their own charitable platforms, after all) have an even better reason to dole out to via the Clintons’ nonprofit: It wins points with a woman in high places — the Senate, the State Department and quite possibly the White House.

But to get back to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Hillary needs to get past her e-mail scandal and fend off the potent far left of the Democratic Party — which hates bankers, corporations and pretty much anyone else with money (unless it’s a glitzy nonprofit or a union). Cue the “War on Wall Street.”

“She will do this to shut up Elizabeth Warren,” one senior bank executive told me, naming the Massachusetts senator and darling of the anti-Wall Street left.

“Then we expect her to go back to normal” — meaning the good old days of political favors exchanged for Wall Street cash, which is the cost of doing business with Clinton Inc.

Charles Gasparino is a Fox Business Network senior correspondent.