The Politico report came on the heels of a critical speech by Hillary Clinton on Thursday in which she pilloried Trump and Bannon, who previously ran Breitbart News. The new head honcho, Steve Bannon, has a history of anti-semitism, according to a 2007 court document that has recently resurfaced.
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“I do not support the children attending a secular school and I do not agree with the or approve the unilateral selection”, Bannon said in his reply.
“I told him that there are children who are Jewish and he asked me what the percentage was”.
There has so far been no comment from the Trump campaign.
However, Andrea Preate, Bannon’s spokeswoman, told BuzzFeed that he “said he never said anything like that, and that he had “proudly” sent the daughters to the private Archer School for Girls for middle school and high school”.
A police report obtained by The Associated Press said he grabbed her wrist and “grabbed at” her neck.
The New York Daily News first reported the ex-wife’s declaration.
However, Piccard said that during a joint visit to Westland School and Willows Community School, also in Los Angeles, Bannon “asked the director why there were so many Chanukah books in the library”.
Bannon, who is the executive director of the Breitbart news website, was hired by the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign on August 17.
“The biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend”, Piccard said in her statement signed on June 27, 2007.
A police report outlined the encounter in which Bannon’s ex detailed that during an argument about finances, Bannon grabbed the mother of his then-infant twins by the wrist where she stood, presumably attempting to pull her through the window of the driver’s seat where he sat, adding that he grabbed at her neck until she hit him in the face to get free.
When Piccard picked up the phone and dialed police, Bannon grabbed it from her hands and threw it across the room, shattering it into pieces, she said. The officer who responded to a 911 call – which abruptly ended when Bannon allegedly smashed the phone midway – said in the report that he observed red marks on the woman, according to Politico.
The Santa Monica city attorney brought charges against Bannon, and he was served with a domestic violence protective order, court records show.
“I have emptied the property”, Luis Guevara, the owner of the house, which is in the Coconut Grove section of Miami, told the newspaper. Bannon was charged with three misdemeanor domestic violence-related charges and pleaded not guilty.
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The documents also include charges of domestic violence.
