His legacy is dripping in irony.

Eric Schneiderman had been at the forefront of prosecuting sexual predators such as Harvey Weinstein as part of the #MeToo movement — and even spearheaded legislation to tighten penalties for strangulation.

So when he was accused Monday of hitting and choking several women, outrage was swift.

“You can only imagine the sense of betrayal — it’s not about me personally, it’s about the other advocates that work day and night to ensure the safety and well-being of women,” victims’ advocate Judy Harris Kluger told Time magazine.

In public, he supported women’s issues and called “out other men who engaged in inappropriate, violent behavior,’’ she said of Schneiderman. “Behind closed doors, he’s engaging in the same sort of the behavior — it’s the height of hypocrisy.”

A woman who told The Post on Tuesday about a disturbing 2010 date with an allegedly boozed-up, aggressive Schneiderman added, “Irony doesn’t even begin’’ to describe the situation.

Schneiderman was still a state senator when he helped sponsor the Strangulation Prevention Act of 2010. The bill made “intentional strangulation and suffocation into unconsciousness a violent felony,’’ according to a press release from Schneiderman at the time.

“The time to criminalize this horrific form of abuse is now,” Schneiderman said at the time.

But he preached one thing and did another, his ex-girlfriends said.

Three told The New Yorker that Schneiderman choked them in rages, including one who said he gripped her so tightly that “he was cutting off my ability to breathe.”

Schneiderman has denied the allegations.