The ex-wife of Donald Trump’s new campaign chief executive Steve Bannon claims Bannon made anti-Semitic comments while the couple fought over which private school to send their daughters to almost a decade ago.
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According to the police report, on New Year’s morning 1996, Bannon’s then-wife asked for a credit card to go shopping, and they argued over whether she should just write a check. When she tried to call 911, she told police that Bannon grabbed the phone and threw it across the room.
He was charged in February 1996 with domestic violence, battery and attempting to dissuade a victim from reporting a crime, but the case was dropped when Ms. Piccard did not show up in court.
Hillary Clinton attempted to use Bannon’s role in the campaign Thursday to tie Trump to the so-called alt-right, an ideology often associated with efforts to preserve “white identity”, and oppose multiculturalism and globalization.
In the divorce declaration filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2007, Piccard claimed Bannon had demanded their daughters “go to a strict structured Catholic School”.
With Bannon’s appointment Trump also brought on Kellyanne Conway to manage his campaign. “[REDACTED] said he laughed at her, and said he would never move out”, the report states.
“Bannon, a 62-year-old former naval officer, got his start in entertainment as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, specializing in mergers and acquisitions”, the Hollywood Reporter said.
The accusations are the latest in a string of bad press for Bannon dredged up from the divorce proceedings.
Almost a decade after the couple split, Bannon’s ex-wife also revealed in court documents that he refused to allow his children to allow their Los Angeles-area school because the high population of Jewish students. The report also said that the woman, whose name Politico redacted in its article, “complained of soreness to her neck”. “She said that she started to fight back striking at his face so he would let go of her”.
Then after the couple toured Willows Community School, she said he “asked me if it bothered me that the school used to be in a Temple”.
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Mr Bannon and Ms Piccard declined to be interviewed for the reports, but the Trump manager’s spokeswoman Alexandra Preate told the Times that he now has “a great relationship” with his now ex-wife and daughters. “I told him that I didn’t know because it wasn’t an issue for me as I am not raising the girls to be either anti-Semitic or prejudiced against anyone”, the statemet reads, according to the NY Daily News.
