The video features KKK members praising Trump and ties his new campaign CEO, former Breitbart News leader Steve Bannon, to “the sort of dressed-up-in-suits version of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements”.
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“I took the phone to call the police and he grabbed the phone away from me throwing it across the room, and breaking it as he [was] screaming that I was a ‘crazy fucking cunt, ‘” Piccard said.
The charges made after a 911 call from Bannon’s ex-wife were eventually dropped when she failed to appear for the court date, but the police reports from the time detail a story of repeated mental and physical abuse by Bannon.
Bannon – head of the incendiary conservative news site Breitbart – was a controversial choice when Trump hired him to replace a previous campaign chief tainted by his past as a lobbyist for pro-Kremlin interests. Bannon’s spokeswoman, Alexandra Preate, told McClatchy in an email that “Mr. Bannon and his ex-wife and his children (have) a great relationship”.
Taylor was also critical of Trump’s recent outreach efforts to black voters, which included a speech in suburban, mostly-white West Bend earlier this month. Trump only wins 72 percent of Republican women, according to the New York Times (Romney won 93 percent of Republican women in 2012). Despite those high unfavorables, though, Clinton holds a 10-point lead over Trump.
Based on the past 20 years of polling data, women play an important role in general elections in two significant ways: Women disproportionately vote for the Democratic candidate, and they consistently make up more than 50 percent of the electorate.
It is understood that Bannon no longer faces any proceedings relating to the 1996 case, but its revelation may complicate Trump’s task as he seeks to woo wary women voters.
“When you engage my community 60-90 days before an election instead of trying to engage my community from day one, that tells me where I am on the priority list”, said Cordella Jones, founder of the startup ASAPKids.
Those polled, however, saw Trump as more honest than Clinton.
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“Trump’s newly installed brain trust”, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said in a statement, “completes Donald Trump’s disturbing takeover of the Republican Party”.
