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Dillon writes: "Donald Trump's campaign CEO Stephen Bannon was branded an anti-Semite by the same ex-wife who claimed he choked her, court documents reveal."

Trump campaign CEO Stephen Bannon. (photo: Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
Trump campaign CEO Stephen Bannon. (photo: Carlo Allegri/Reuters)


Trump Campaign CEO Under New Scrutiny Over Anti-Semitic Remarks

By Nancy Dillon, New York Daily News

27 August 16

 

onald Trump's campaign CEO Stephen Bannon was branded an anti-Semite by the same ex-wife who claimed he choked her, court documents reveal.

Mary Louise Piccard said in a 2007 court declaration that Bannon didn't want their twin daughters attending the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles because many Jewish students were enrolled at the elite institution.

"The biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend," Piccard said in her statement signed on June 27, 2007.

"He said that he doesn't like the way they raise their kids to be 'whiny brats' and that he didn't want the girls going to school with Jews," Piccard wrote.

"I told him that there are children who are Jewish at (a competing school), and he asked me what the percentage was. I told him that I didn't know because it wasn't an issue for me as I am not raising the girls to be either anti-Semitic or prejudiced against anyone," she wrote.

Bannon asked his ex-wife if it bothered her that a second school, the Willows Community School, used to be a Temple.

And while checking out yet another school, Bannon asked the director during a sit down why there were “so many Chanukah books in the library.”

“At the time, Mr. Bannon never said anything like that and proudly sent the girls to Archer for their middle school and high school education.” a spokeswoman for Bannon told the Daily News.

Piccard and Bannon were locked in a contentious child custody war when she accused him of the bigoted behavior a decade after first filing for divorce.

She also claimed Bannon physically attacked her inside their Santa Monica, Calif., residence in 1996 and later ran her out of town to get out of his criminal trial.

She said Bannon blew up at her on Jan. 1, 1996, in an argument over her plan to take a credit card to the store.

"(Bannon) became physical with me and grabbed me by the throat and arm," she said in her sworn statement.

She said Bannon chased her into their house, threatening to kidnap their girls, she said.

"I took the phone to call the police and he grabbed the phone away from me throwing it across the room, and breaking it as he screamed that I was a "crazy f-----g c--t!" He then left."

Cops responded to the fight and found red marks on her left wrist and the right side of her neck, according to a police report released by Santa Monica officials Friday.

Bannon faced misdemeanor domestic violence, battery and dissuading a witness charges and hired a criminal lawyer, court records show.

"The criminal attorney threatened me, indicating that if Respondent went to jail, I would have no money and no way to support the children," Piccard wrote.

She said Bannon told her to leave town so she couldn't be served in the case or testify against him.

"I was told that I could go anywhere in the world. His attorney, along with respondent, arranged for me to leave town until the trial was over and it was okay for me to return home. I left town for two weeks with the children and was an hour and a half away by car until the attorney phoned me and told me I could come back," she wrote.

"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," Preate told Politico in response to the domestic violence allegations first reported by the political news website late Thursday.

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