Katie Porter is a “grasp manipulator” who embodies every part incorrect with politics at present, based on her husband of 10 years.
Matthew Hoffman, 50, advised The Publish the hotheaded liberal contender for California governor is a nasty option to run the deep blue state.
Referring to video clips that uncovered Porter’s risky mood and hostile therapy of staffers and journalists, he mentioned, “It’s about time” they got here out.
“The quantity of employees she goes by way of. The horrible issues that she says [about others] … these aren’t fabrications,” he warned The Publish exterior his residence in Portland, Oregon.
Hoffman, who divorced Porter in 2013, mentioned persons are beginning to see who his ex actually is, and it’s folks like her who make it “onerous to love politics” in current occasions.
Porter’s marketing campaign to exchange term-limited Gavin Newsom has been hobbled by an on-air conflict with CBS journalist Julie Watts. The previous US consultant accused the reporter of being “unnecessarily argumentative” when requested about what she’d do to win over Donald Trump supporters.
Hoffman mentioned it was essentially the most “softball query,” and all she needed to say was how the message ought to be to construct bridges and for everybody to work collectively.
One other video emerged displaying Porter yelling at a feminine staffer to “get out of my f—ing shot” throughout a July 2021 Zoom name.
Hoffman — who shares three youngsters along with his ex-wife, from whom he had a bitter break up — acknowledged that Porter chafes many in political circles, together with Democratic Social gathering bigwigs Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff.
“She will be able to’t even get together with Nancy Pelosi,” Hoffman noticed.
He additionally mentioned it was preposterous for Porter to say her California Senate major loss to Schiff final March was as a result of he needed to “rig” the election.
Porter suffered a crushing defeat, ending a distant third behind Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey.
“The system’s not rigged, Katie,” warned Hoffman, saying it was all a matter of politics as ordinary.
Nevertheless, he was additionally fast so as to add that his ex-wife is in no way dumb and is “a grasp manipulator.”
After the incident, Porter mentioned, she regretted her remark calling the election rigged.
Hoffman identified that management is all about discovering consensus, however mentioned Porter’s character means she isn’t the sort to hearken to differing concepts and discover an appropriate political center floor.
“Katie and her ex-husband divorced greater than a decade in the past and have a optimistic and productive relationship as they proceed to co-parent their three youngsters,” mentioned Porter’s marketing campaign spokesperson Peter Opitz.
Addressing their relationship, Hoffman described their divorce as “terrible.”
Hoffman was the one to file for divorce, however shortly after, Porter filed an emergency protecting order after which a restraining order in opposition to him. Police additionally arrested Hoffman after a battle wherein he broke a lightweight change of their residence.
Hoffman responded with a request for a restraining order of his personal, claiming Porter would “routinely” name him a “f—ing fool” and “f—ing incompetent” and shattered a glass espresso pot on their kitchen counter in March 2012 when she felt their home wasn’t clear sufficient.
“She wouldn’t let me have a mobile phone as a result of she mentioned, ‘You’re too f—ing dumb to function it,’” Hoffman mentioned of his hotheaded ex within the paperwork.
Hoffman additionally claimed in divorce papers that in 2006, Porter exploded over the way in which he was making mashed potatoes, snapping, “Can’t you learn the f—ing directions!” earlier than elevating a “ceramic bowl of steaming scorching potatoes and dumped it on my head, burning my scalp,” based on Hoffman’s account in court docket papers.
In her first congressional run in 2018, Porter solid herself as a “sufferer of home violence” and often highlighted her position as a single mother.
“I’m essentially the most boring individual in America. I’m a mother of three children, I protected my household, I ended a wedding that was troubled,” Porter mentioned.
Katie “likes to bang the drum” of her being a single mother, Hoffman countered.
The couple ultimately settled their divorce. Neither was ever charged with any wrongdoing by police and co-parenting preparations had been ultimately settled.
Hoffman left California to turn into a compliance specialist with the Oregon Employment Division.
Their three youngsters — two sons and a daughter, the youngest — dwell with their mother.
Hoffman mentioned he loves his children and needs to be there for them as a lot as doable. Whereas sees them on FaceTime often, he would like to spend extra time with them in individual, though it’s onerous with them being in Southern California.
He mentioned he doesn’t converse to Porter typically and tries to keep away from her, however when she does name, it’s normally as a result of she “needs one thing,” normally associated to parenting.
Hoffman, initially from Oregon, mentioned he’s moved on along with his life and located somebody new, however he nonetheless lives within the shadow of his painful divorce.
Porter has been operating her platform saying she affords the state “slightly little bit of hope and a complete lot of grit,” forward of the first in June 2026.
