According to the records, the case was eventually dismissed when Mr Bannon’s ex-wife – they subsequently divorced – failed to show up for a court hearing.
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Police arrived to find Piccard visibly upset, with red marks on her neck and wrist, the report said. After the police took Piccard’s statement, they charged Bannon with “misdemeanor domestic violence, battery and dissuading a witness.’ However the charges against Bannon were later dismissed”.
She said in divorce papers that Bannon pressured her into leaving town so the case wouldn’t go to trial, according to The New York Post.
However, local conservative pundit A.J. Delgado, a Trump supporter and occasional Herald op-ed contributor, said on Twitter that Bannon had lived in the Grove house and she had visited him there.
Donald Trump’s new campaign boss has been accused of being an anti-Semite by his ex-wife, who also alleges he was emotionally and physically abusive to her.
“Bannon is executive chairman of the rightwing website Breitbart News, which has for years aggressively claimed that voter fraud is rife among minorities and in Democratic-leaning areas”, The Guardian notes. While the case ended when Bannon’s ex-wife did not appear in court, the incident presents a new problem for the Trump campaign following the hiring of the controversial Bannon.
The couple – who had twin girls – were divorced shortly after the criminal charges were dropped in August 1996.
Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO has been in the job for barely over a week, and the press already has a big story on him.
Bannon denied through a spokesperson that he made the remarks.
“I have no idea why the Guardian article claims a neighbor says they never saw Steve, but the house has high bushes and sort of a high fence so I could see how they might not”, Delgado said. The Stephen Bannon domestic abuse police report is circulating on the Internet causing major embarrassment to Bannon. (Trump has also predictably adopted their unfounded attacks on Hillary Clinton.) Bannon wrote and produced a documentary film that accompanied the error-filled book, both of which made a series of baseless allegations of corruption and quid pro quo by the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton that have been widely discredited. She first said, ‘Oh, thank you. The charges were dropped.
Trump has been revamping his campaign team after weeks of controversy.
“It just undermines any effort they are pursuing to try and soften him up when he surrounds himself with people like that”, said Katie Packer, a Republican strategist who vigorously opposes Trump.
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Responding today on Bannon’s behalf, spokeswoman Preate told ABC News that he has a great relationship with his ex-wife and their children.
