Monday, August 29, 2016

Trump Campaign CEO Under Scrutiny for Domestic Violence Charge

Stephen Bannon's appointment as chief executive of Donald Trump's campaign has drawn scrutiny to his personal history, including a 1996 arrest in a domestic-violence case that was ultimately dismissed.

Court records show that Bannon was charged with three misdemeanors in Santa Monica, California, on Feb. 22, 1996, after his then-wife claimed he attacked her.

During a legal battle more than a decade later, after the couple divorced, Bannon's ex-wife also claimed in court papers that he objected to their daughters attending a Los Angeles school because of the number of Jewish students there. A personal spokesperson for Bannon denied the claim Friday.

In the police report regarding the alleged 1996 domestic violence incident obtained by Politico and confirmed by NBC News, she claimed that during a New Year's argument about finances, she spat at Bannon and he "reached up to her from the driver's seat of his car and grabbed her left wrist." 

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Source: NBC News

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