Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train-wreck interview with her and said, “Now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.” pic.twitter.com/OCF73BrUg1

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) October 8, 2025

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Jim Treacher comments.

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The interview video provoked the release of this video from 2021:

Exclusive from @melmason on Katie Porter, who berates a staffer and tells her to “get out of my fucking shot!” while recording a video with the Biden administration.

The video + story — scooped by @politicohttps://t.co/WENFsRlkwC pic.twitter.com/47dQ3n6nWJ

— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) October 8, 2025

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She’s from Iowa, but clearly the daughter of a local version of “It’s a Wonderful Life”‘s Mr. Potter. No local public high school, ANDOVER! And Yale ’96!

You do get, we all know, villains at Yale. But, why do so many of ’em go into politics?