Exclusive | Katie Porter is a master manipulator who would be no good as California governor: ex-husband

Katie Porter is a “master manipulator” who embodies everything wrong with politics today, according to her husband of 10 years.Matthew Hoffman, 50, told The Post the hotheaded liberal contender for California governor is a bad choice to run the deep blue state.Referring to video clips that exposed Porter’s volatile temper and hostile treatment of staffers and journalists, he said, “It’s about time” they came out.“The amount of staff she goes through.The horrible things that she says [about others] … those aren’t fabrications,” he warned The Post outside his home in Portland, Oregon.Hoffman, who divorced Porter in 2013, said people are starting to see who his ex really is, and it’s people like her who make it “hard to like politics” in recent times.Porter’s campaign to replace term-limited Gavin Newsom has been hobbled by an on-air clash with CBS journalist Julie Watts.

The former US representative accused the reporter of being “unnecessarily argumentative” when asked about what she’d do to win over Donald Trump supporters.Hoffman said it was the most “softball question,” and all she had to say was how the message should be to build bridges and for everyone to work together.Another video emerged showing Porter yelling at a female staffer to “get out of my f—ing shot” during a July 2021 Zoom call.Hoffman — who shares three children with his ex-wife, from whom he had a bitter split — acknowledged that Porter chafes many in political circles, including Democratic Party bigwigs Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. “She can’t even get along with Nancy Pelosi,” Hoffman observed.He also said it was preposterous for Porter to claim her California Senate primary loss to Schiff last March was because he wanted to “rig” the election.Porter suffered a crushing defeat, finishing a distant third behind Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey. “The system’s not rigged, Katie,” warned Hoffman, saying it was all a matter of poli...