In the transcripts, Bannon’s ex-wife Mary Louise Piccard claims that he didn’t want their daughters to attend a Los Angeles private school because it had too many Jewish students, the New York Daily News reports.
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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. “He said that he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be “whiney brats” and that he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews”.
Bannon, the former head of the ultra-conservative Breitbart News website was appointed the head of the Trump campaign last week, in a shakeup of the Republican candidate’s campaign leadership.
“At the time, Mr. Bannon never said anything like that and proudly sent the girls to Archer for their middle school and high school educations”, Preate said.
She also addressed a Thursday Politico story on a 1997 misdemeanor domestic violence charge against Bannon that included a report from the Santa Monica police department.
Asked about the old charges, Bannon’s personal spokeswoman, Alexandra Preate, noted they had been dismissed.
“The biggest problem he had with Archer (School for Girls) is the number of Jews who attend”, she also said in the court declaration.
“I’m betting he hasn’t done any due diligence on any of these folks”, Dave Ulrich, a management professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, told the newspaper. The Trump campaign did not respond to inquiries about the police report.
Speaking in Des Moines on Saturday, Trump said “nothing means more to me than working to make our party the home of the African-American vote once again”.
The accusations were made public after Trump’s rival, Hillary Clinton last week accused Trump of “taking hate groups mainstream”, including by adding Bannon to his campaign.
Bannon was charged with domestic violence, battery and attempting to dissuade a victim from reporting a crime in February 1996 after he allegedly assaulted Piccard during an argument about finances, according to NBC News. The charges were dropped after his estranged wife didn’t show up at trial, according to court records.
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Bannon’s spokesperson has since denied these claims, but it’s not hard to see that his anti-Jew bias is everywhere in his media and political career.
