His then-wife, Mary Louise Piccard claimed that he also threatened “to take the girls and leave”. According to Politico, the police report from the incident (which can be seen here) had one officer noting “red marks on her neck and wrist”.
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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.
“If I wasn’t in town they couldn’t serve me and I wouldn’t have to go to court”, she said, adding, “He also told me that if I went to court he and his attorney would make sure that I would be the one who was guilty”. He pleaded not guilty and the charges were later dropped due to witness unavailability.
Bannon, formerly chairman of the Breitbart News Network, was accused in the documents of grabbing Piccard – his second wife – ‘by the throat and arm’.
The case was later dismissed, but it stemmed from an argument on New Year’s Day in 1996 over finances, Politico reports. She told police that Bannon had spent the previous night sleeping on the sofa. She said she left town for two weeks, and returned once Bannon’s attorney told her the case had been dismissed. She allegedly spat at him, and he responded by allegedly reaching “up to her from the drivers seat of his auto and grabbed her left wrist”. “In the beginning of their relationship, she said they [had] 3 or 4 arguments that became physical and they had been going to counseling”.
“He pulled her down as if he was trying to pull her into the auto, over the door”, the report said. The next morning, she said, the noise she made feeding their daughters and his refusal to provide a credit card for grocery shopping started a fight that spilled onto the driveway.
“She told him that maybe he should find another place to live, that she wanted a divorce”.
It’s also claimed in the documents that he had refused to marry her unless medical tests proved the twins she was carrying were ‘normal, ‘ the NY Post reported. She managed to break free and ran inside. She says that when she intervened Bannon called her “f–ing crazy” and said that if she hadn’t stopped him, “she wouldn’t be banging her head anymore”. “[REDACTED] said he laughed at her, and said he would never move out”, the report states.
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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”, Alexandra Preate, Bannon’s spokeswoman, told Politico. Um, excuse me? Though, Stephen did end up marrying her three days before the babies were born, after an amniocentesis proved the girls were “normal”, we are shocked and appalled by his insensitivity.
