‘Despicable’: Rich Democrat candidate’s wife called Bible ‘[bleeping] stupid,’ loved joke about Trump’s ‘demise’

Susan Chatzky, the wife of a Democrat U.S. House candidate, made a series of inflammatory Facebook posts over the course of a decade, in which she deemed the Bible “f***ing stupid,” appeared to joke about President Donald Trump’s death and suggested that young white men to be deported or imprisoned.

Susan’s husband, Peter Chatzky, a wealthy tech executive and deputy mayor of his affluent Westchester County village, is vying to unseat Republican New York Rep. Mike Lawler in a contest that could be among the most competitive races of the midterms. His wife’s comments appear to be at odds with the “compassion and empathy” Chatzky called for when announcing his congressional run.

“We’re one America,” Chatzky told the Westchester County, New York-based outlet The Examiner News in June 2025, adding that he hoped to end the “hatred and divisiveness” in the current political climate. “We can all be successful together.”

Susan Chatzky’s incendiary social media posts, which were previously unreported, were hidden from public view after the Daily Caller News Foundation reached out for comment.

Chatzky, a former board member of a local Planned Parenthood center, mocked the Bible and appeared to compare it to a popular children’s book series in a December 2021 post.

“I really, really, really, don’t care about your f***ing stupid Bible,” Chatzky wrote on Facebook. “It’s a book. Should we live our lives according to Nancy Drew?”

In August 2025 while responding to the news of Taylor Swift’s engagement to NFL star Travis Kelce, Chatzky appeared to call attention to Trump’s hypothetical death.

“The interwebs are so excited, you would think ‘it’ had happened,” Chatzky wrote on her Facebook page.

An account in the comments clarified the “it” in question was the death of the current president.

“Imagine being Trump and knowing people are super happy for Taylor but bummed the breaking news wasn’t [sic] his demise,” the user wrote, adding a laughing emoji.

“What a great day that will be!” the user added with a praying emoji at the end.

Chatzky reacted with a heart, referred to on Facebook as a “love.”

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), House Republicans’ campaign arm, slammed Chatzky’s inflammatory comments in a statement to the DCNF.

“Radical Democrat Peter Chatzky and his wife are despicable,” NRCC spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole said. “They unabashedly support using hateful, discriminatory rhetoric and violence to get what they want. That is no way to lead, and Chatzky is unfit to serve the Hudson Valley in Congress.”

In October 2015, Susan Chatzky posted a graphic purportedly showing the number of mass shootings that year through September. In an exchange in the comments lamenting several shootings that day, she called for more drastic measures.

“I hate to say this, but I think we need to deport white men in their 20s. Or put them in internment camps,” Chatzky said. “I’ll really miss my sons.”

When another account expressed alarm at Chatzky’s proposal and said her broad generalizations of white people could lead to stereotypes of black men, Chatzky backtracked and claimed she was joking.

“I’m just tired of people being so afraid of people of color,” Chatzky said in a comment since-scrubbed from public view. “I was trying to point out how ridiculous that is. That stupid mom who wouldn’t let her son learn about Islam really got to me this week.”

Chatzky also reacted positively to a viral news story in January 2021 during which an 18-year-old woman publicly shamed her mother for getting punched in the face at a pro-Trump rally.

“This gives me hope,” Chatzky wrote in a post accompanying a Newsweek story of the incident.

That month, Chatzky also argued members of Congress who declined to wear masks in the Capitol should face criminal prosecution.

“The lawmakers who refused to wear masks should be brought up on charges of reckless endangerment,” Chatzky wrote.

Peter Chatzky is among several Democrats running in a crowded primary to defeat Lawler in November.

Cait Conley, an Army combat veteran and former national security official, and Rockland County legislator Beth Davidson appear to be the favorites of national Democrats. Chatzky, however, is pledging to shake up the June primary with a $5 million investment into his campaign from his personal wealth.

Lawler’s Hudson Valley seat, New York’s 17th congressional district, is one of three GOP-held districts that former Vice President Kamala Harris carried in 2024, albeit the Democrat won it by under one percentage point. The NRCC is expected to spend aggressively to defend Lawler’s reelection bid.

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