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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Mary Louise Piccard said her former partner Stephen Bannon made anti-semitic and offensive remarks when they quarreled during the process of finding a school for two daughters in Los Angeles.
“The biggest problem he had with Archer (School for Girls) is the number of Jews who attend”, she also said in the court declaration. “Mr. Bannon never said anything like that and proudly sent the girls to Archer for their middle school and high school education”, a statement said, according to the Guardian.
It then escalated until she demanded a divorce and told him to move out; he then went to his auto, at which point she reportedly spat at him and he responded by grabbing her neck and throat.
Police say the report was made available to Politico by mistake. Bannon was also charged with misdemeanor domestic violence, battery, and dissuading a witness after allegedly grabbing his then-wife’s neck and wrist during a dispute in 1996, and smashing a phone when she tried to call 911, according to court documents.
The Trump campaign has come under fire for anti-Semitism. At one school Bannon reportedly asked the director why there were so many books about Chanukah in the library, the AP reported citing Piccard’s court declaration. Among a litany of other things – including domestic abuse charges – it has now been discovered that Bannon demanded his children not attend a school with too many Jews.
Spokespersons for Trump’s campaign did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment. She said Bannon had told her the lawyer would make her look like the guilty party if she testified and the attorney told her she’d be broke if Bannon went to jail.
This comes at a time when Bannon is facing scrutiny of his background.
While neighbours told the Miami Herald they could not remember seeing Bannon at the property, conservative pundit and Trump supporter A.J. Delgado claimed that Bannon had indeed lived there.
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And a spokesperson for Bannon said ‘Steve has a great relationship with his ex-wife and his twins’.
