Rep. Katie Porter of California, a Democrat running for the Senate, is under renewed fire for her ex-husband’s alleged domestic abuse, which included a claim that she dropped a pot of “steaming hot potatoes” on his head.
Throughout a lengthy separation and divorce procedure in 2012 and 2013, Porter’s ex-husband Matt Hoffman brought charges of abuse against her. Porter has repeatedly refuted these claims. However, the allegations resurfaced after several former Porter employees came forward to report Porter’s poisonous, emotionally abusive management style.
As she made her way up to the House of Representatives, the California Democrat incorporated her experience of surviving domestic violence into her political character. On Tuesday, she released a book that explored her relationship with her ex-husband.
Porter and her then-husband, Matt Hoffman, were accused of domestic abuse during their separation in 2013, when they were still cohabitating, according to divorce paperwork from that year that Fox News Digital received.
Porter, who is vying to succeed departing Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., in the upper chamber of the federal government, and Hoffman both requested domestic abuse restraining orders against each other, according to the divorce papers.
Hoffman claimed Porter threw boiling potatoes on his head, punched him “in the arm causing a large bruise,” and called him “too dumb” to have a cell phone. He claimed that on the day the police were summoned to their home, the congresswoman “waited all day, then called the police” and “made false allegations” against him 11 hours later.
When police arrived at their home following the altercation in April 2013, Hoffman was detained on violence charges. The following day, Porter asked for a temporary restraining order.
According to Porter’s spokeswoman, Lindsay Reilly, “the morning of the hearing on Porter’s request for a temporary restraining order following documented violence by her then-husband, her then-husband’s lawyer filed a reciprocal request for protection.”
“This common defensive tactic is designed to intimidate a victim,” Reilly said. “Her then-husband later admitted, as evidenced by the attached document, that ‘he regretted making these allegations.’”
“Porter’s then-husband’s allegation was not supported by any evidence, other than his false and later retracted statement,” she continued.
Hoffman expressed regret for bringing the accusations against Porter in court-ordered child custody evaluations, according to documents obtained, but it’s unclear whether this was because his claims weren’t true or for some other reason.
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Domestic Dispute Leads to Divorce for Katie Porter and Ex–Husband
Hoffman was contacted by to see if he had changed his mind about his accusations against the congresswoman, but he didn’t respond.
Porter and Hoffman divorced in December of that year after separating in March of that year. Despite continuing to live together during their separation, the two claimed they mistreatment by one another.
According to divorce documents obtained, Hoffman claimed in 2012 that Porter broke a glass coffee pot out of rage about their messy home, causing him to gash his hands and arms.
Additionally, Hoffman said that while still married, the congresswoman routinely called him a “f—ing idiot” and “f—ing incompetent,” and during one argument in 2006, dropped “steaming hot potatoes” on his head.
Hoffman remarked in remarks that were originally made public by the Daily Mail this week, “She wouldn’t let me have a cell phone because she said, ‘You’re too f***ing dumb to operate it,'” according to a reprint.
Porter claimed in her restraining order that Hoffman used profanity and slurs toward her as well as “grabbed both [of her] hands and squeezed” during the altercation in April 2013 that resulted in his detention.
The congresswoman further claimed that Hoffman had shoved her aside with his elbow after racing up to her, forcing her to trip and fall onto a nearby bookcase. Porter claimed that during the incident, she went to fetch her kid and Hoffman yelled at her that she “was ‘ruining'” their family by divorcing.
The day before Porter’s interim injunction was due to expire, on April 30, 2013, Hoffman requested a restraining order from the Orange County Superior Court. Porter is facing accusations of mistreating her workers as she seeks to succeed Feinstein in the Senate.
The Dear White Staffers Twitter account last year posted screenshots of text communications between Porter and her former Wounded Warrior program fellow, Sasha Georgiades.
“This former employee was not fired. She was a fellow in our office, and weeks before she breached COVID protocol in July, we had already mutually agreed on an end date in August 2022,” a Porter spokesperson wrote.
“Congresswoman Porter was informing her that she would work from home for the remaining three weeks of her fellowship,” the spokesperson continued. “Following knowledge of COVID exposure, Congresswoman Porter tested twice daily and only attended in-person gatherings after negative results.”
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