The alleged anti-Semitic remarks surfaced a day after reports that Piccard filed domestic violence charges against Bannon 20 years ago, when they were still married. In the police report, the then-wife claimed that during an argument on New Year’s Day about finances, she spat at Bannon and he “reached up to her from the driver’s seat of his vehicle and grabbed her left wrist”.
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The ex-wife of Steve Bannon claims he made anti-Semitic comments when the couple fought over which private school to send their daughters to almost a decade ago, NBC News reported.
“The bottom line is he has a great relationship with the twins, he has a great relationship with the ex-wife, he still supports them”, Preate told Politico in response to the domestic violence allegations first reported by the political news website late Thursday.
It was a really good idea for Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon to assume the role of Donald Trump’s campaign CEO, wasn’t it?
On Friday, The Guardian newspaper reported that Bannon was registered to vote at a vacant Miami-Dade home, which is slated to be demolished.
Bannon is on leave from Breitbart as he works for Trump.
Bannon also has faced scrutiny in recent days over his voter registration and his former wife’s claim that he attacked her during an argument in 1996.
Paul Manafort, Mr Trump’s campaign manager was forced to resign after investigators found he had been named as someone who was to receive millions of undisclosed cash payments from Victor Yanukovych, the pro-Russian leader of Ukraine.
She told police that she and Mr Bannon had a fight and that he had seized a telephone when she had attempted to call for help, throwing it across the room and smashing it.
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”.
Her injuries were photographed by cops and he was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence, but the case collapsed when she failed to turn up in court.
Charlie Black, a Republican strategist who has informally advised the Trump campaign, said the allegations against Bannon fell into a “gray area” because the charges were dropped.
The court file has not been released yet, but the L.A. County Criminal Court’s database confirms that the criminal charges against Bannon were filed and ultimately dismissed.
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Conway was hired as campaign manager at the same time that Bannon joined the Trump campaign. A police officer said he saw red marks on Bannon’s wife’s body that gave credence to her account. How did you know to come?’ As I started to tell her about the 911 hang up call, she started to cry, and it took 3-4 minutes for her to calm down, so she could tell me what happened.
