Though he did eventually fire Lewandowski, it was reportedly only because there were doubts about whether he would be able to manage a general election campaign – not because of his battery charges, for which Trump actually defended his campaign manager.
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“[REDACTED] said Mr. Bannon grabbed at neck, also pulling her into the vehicle”.
She went inside to call 9-1-1, and Bannon grabbed the phone from her and “threw it across the room”, smashing it into pieces, the report said.
“He said that he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be “whiney brats” and that he didn’t want the girls to go to school with Jews”, his ex-wife, Mary Louise Piccard, claimed in court fillings reviewed by BuzzFeed News.
A police report stated that the incident was prompted by an argument about the couple’s finances.
However, asked by CNN whether the domestic abuse charges would affect Bannon’s future with the campaign, Conway gave a one word answer: “no”.
Bannon then told Piccard to leave town, she claimed in the document. The couple, who have twin daughters, were divorced shortly after.
Neither Bannon nor Clohesy responded to The Guardian’s request for comment, though Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said “Mr. Bannon moved to another location in Florida”, without elaborating.
“I have emptied the property”, Luis Guevara, the property’s owner, told The Guardian.
Bannon apparently never lived at the house himself, but rented it for his ex-wife. On Friday, the Guardian newspaper reported that Bannon had been registered at an address in Miami-Dade where he did not reside, putting him at odds with state laws.
“Mr. Bannon said he never said anything like that and proudly sent the girls to Archer for their middle school and high school education”, Preate said.
Picccard also said that Bannon had told her that earlier in the relationship that he would marry her only if the twins were “normal”.
Undisclosed ties to an Egyptian businessman and former political official are just the latest disclosure issues for Stephen Bannon, chief executive for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign.
Police arrived at the home on New Year’s Day, 1996, after a call was made to 911 and the line went dead, the police report says. As for Bannon, recent reports have dug up his divorce records and, along with them, allegations of domestic violence and anti-Semitism.
When she told him there were also Jewish children at another school they were considering, he asked about percentages. He pulled her down.
Ultimately they chose to send their daughters to Archer – but only after a prickly email exchange between the couple, which was also included in the documents.
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Bannon was charged with trying to prevent or dissuade the victim or a witness of a crime from reporting it; inflicting injury on a cohabitant or other closely associated person; and battery, according to court records in Southern California, where Bannon lived at the time.
