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Trump Campaign CEO Faces Allegations of Domestic Abuse & Anti-Semitism

HeadlineAug 29, 2016

Donald Trump’s new campaign chief Steve Bannon is facing questions about domestic abuse, alleged anti-Semitic comments and apparent voter fraud. Steve Bannon was charged in 1996 with misdemeanor domestic violence, battery and dissuading a witness. A Santa Monica, California, police report said Bannon grabbed then-wife Mary Louise Piccard “by the throat and arm” and threatened to leave with the couple’s twin daughters. Bannon pleaded not guilty to the charges, which were dropped later that year when Piccard did not appear in court. Piccard claimed in divorce proceedings that Bannon pressured her not to testify. Piccard also said in a sworn 2007 court filing that Bannon made anti-Semitic comments when the two argued over whether to send their daughters to a private school. According to one document, Piccard said, “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.” Meanwhile, Bannon changed his voter registration over the weekend, after The Guardian reported he was registered at an empty home where he does not live. The house in Miami-Dade County, Florida, is vacant and due to be demolished to make way for a new development. Following the report, Bannon re-registered to vote in Florida’s Sarasota County at the single-family home of a former colleague at the right-wing website, Breitbart News. Bannon was the head of Breitbart until two weeks ago, when he took over at the helm of Donald Trump’s election campaign.

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