An ex-wife of Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private school almost a decade ago, according to court papers.
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Now, reports indicate that Piccard also accused Bannon of making vile anti-semitic remarks, including saying he “doesn’t like Jews” and didn’t want his daughters attending school with their kids who are “whiney brats”.
“The biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend”, Piccard wrote. When Bannon started to leave, she asked for a credit card for groceries, but he refused and went to his vehicle, Piccard told police.
“I told him that there are children who are Jewish and he asked me what the percentage was”.
Bannon hasn’t responded to the domestic abuse and voter fraud allegations, but he’s denying the anti-semitic remarks.
Details of the case emerged just hours after Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, faulted him for hiring Bannon last week in the latest shakeup of his campaign’s high command.
And now it’s being reported that in divorce proceedings, Bannon’s ex-wife Mary Louise Piccard claimed that he was basically anti-Semitic.
Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, she this week she doesn’t know if Trump was aware of Bannon’s domestic violence charges, leading The New York Times to conclude that Trump “Hires First and Deals With Background Questions Later”.
Bannon reportedly asked Piccard whether she took issue with the fact that a second school being considered had previously been a Temple, and during an interview with the director of a third school asked why there were “so many Chanukah books in the library”.
“I have emptied the property”, Luis Guevara, the owner of the house, which is in the Coconut Grove section of the city, said.
According to a Santa Monica, Calif., police report, Bannon’s then-wife said he grabbed her neck and wrist when the couple was fighting about finances.
Donald Trump’s campaign faces controversy again a week after campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned amid accusations of his pro-Russian ties in Ukraine. In a testimony, Piccard claimed that Bannon told her to leave town-Santa Monica, California-to avoid testifying. The charges were dropped after his estranged wife didn’t show up at trial, according to court records. A police officer said he saw red marks on Bannon’s wife’s body that gave credence to her account.
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“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.
