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DONALD TRUMP’S NEW campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon has denied making anti-Semitic remarks in relation to his daughters’ schooling after accusations made by his ex-wife emerged.
The revelation is contained in court papers reviewed by The Associated Press and comes a day after reports emerged that domestic violence charges were filed 20 years ago against him, following an altercation with his then-wife, Mary Louise Piccard.
In a sworn court declaration following their divorce, Piccard said her ex-husband had objected to sending their twin daughters to an elite Los Angeles academy because he “didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews.”
“He said he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiney brats,’” Piccard said in a 2007 court filing.
Trouble in Camp Trump
Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, took the helm of Trump’s campaign last week in yet another leadership shake-up.
The campaign has been plagued by negative stories about staffers, including charges lodged against his former campaign manager following an altercation with a reporter, and questions about his former campaign chairman’s links with Russian interests.
Alexandra Preate, a spokeswoman for Bannon, last night denied that he made anti-Semitic remarks about the private school. “He never said that,” Preate said, adding that Bannon was proud to send his daughters to the school.
Trump has previously been criticised for invoking anti-Semitic stereotypes, including tweeting out an anti-Hillary Clinton image that included a Star of David atop a pile of money.
He also raised eyebrows when he spoke in front of the Republican Jewish Coalition and declared, “I’m a negotiator like you folks were negotiators.”
Clinton has tried in recent days to highlight Trump’s popularity with white nationalist and supremacist groups.
‘A bigot’
She delivered a speech Thursday that linked him with the “alt-right” movement, which is often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve “white identity,” oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values.”
Trump has pushed back, defending himself and his supporters, and labeling Clinton “a bigot” for supporting policies he argues have ravaged minority communities.
The Republican candidate has noted that his daughter, Ivanka, would soon be giving birth to another Jewish child. Ivanka Trump converted to Orthodox Judaism when she married Jared Kushner, a young real estate developer who has become a driving force in his father-in-law’s campaign.
Schooling
The court filing was among several documents related to Bannon and Picard’s voluminous divorce case, filed in 1997, which was revisited several times as Piccard sought support for tuition and other expenses. The documents reviewed by the AP were part of a request for Bannon to pay $25,000 (€22, 329)in legal fees and to cover the $64,000(€57,163) in tuition it cost to send both girls to The Archer School for Girls for the 2007-08 school year.
Bannon’s remarks about Jews followed other comments that caught Piccard’s attention when they were visiting private schools in 2000.
At one school, she said, he asked the director why there were so many Hanukkah books in the library. At another school, he asked Piccard if it bothered her that the school used to be in a temple.
“I said, ‘No,’ and asked why he asked,” Piccard said. “He did not respond.”
Piccard said Bannon wanted the girls to attend a Catholic school.
In 2007, when the girls were accepted at Archer, he told Piccard he objected because of the number of Jews in attendance.
Domestic violence
Piccard filed for divorce in January 1997, just over a year after she told police Bannon roughed her up on New Year’s Day 1996 following a spat over money, in which she spit on him.
A police report obtained by The Associated Press said he grabbed her wrist and “grabbed at” her neck. When she tried to call 911, she told police that Bannon grabbed the phone and threw it across the room. An officer who responded reported seeing red marks on her wrist and neck.
Bannon was charged in 1996 with misdemeanour witness intimidation, domestic violence with traumatic injury and battery, according to a Santa Monica, California, police report. The charges were dropped after his estranged wife didn’t show up at trial, according to court records.
Piccard said in her declaration that she skipped the trial after Bannon and his lawyer arranged for her to leave town. She said Bannon had told her the lawyer would make her look like the guilty party if she testified and the attorney told her she’d be broke if Bannon went to jail.
The Trump campaign declined to comment on the abuse charges. But Preate said police never interviewed Bannon. She added that Bannon has a great relationship with his ex-wife and kids.
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“The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America.
The largest broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — and major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretence of fair play.
Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent. Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang suffers the daily beating that Trump does.
Michael Goodwin – Journalist
“The U.S. media is essentially 100 per cent united, vehemently, against Trump, and preventing him from being elected president.” Glenn Greenwald – American lawyer, journalist, speaker and author.
Not just the American media either.
You could be forgiven for thinking the Irish media were on a retainer from the Clinton Foundation.
D.O.B is tho
That’s probably down to the fact that he is a racist bigot and con artist.
@joey. They could very well be. The reach of the Clinton foundation knows no borders or boundaries.
On top of this The Journal loves to share content from AP. Associated Press have already made up their minds to call the election for Clinton.
If the tables were turned and all this was coming out about Hilary you’d be locking your lips and not mentioning a thing about the media
The trump machine deserves all that it is getting.
Trump and his supporters have openly threatened free press and to go after individual reporters… Of course those working in media are against him…
I’d just like to point out that the reason we know who gives money to the Clinton foundation is because their books are open to be viewed by anybody. That’s income and expenditure.
And didn’t Trump himself donate to it ?
We don’t know, Trump won’t release any of his tax returns, not even the completed ones from 2008
In other news. Trump farted this morning. Breaking all over the world. Meanwhile Hilary Clinton gets easy ride.
State Admits Benghazi Material in New Cache of Emails Clinton Failed to Produce
(Washington DC) – Judicial Watch today announced that a federal court has ordered the State Department to review newly found Clinton emails and turn over responsive records by September 13. And, in two other Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, the State Department is scheduled to release additional emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s non-state.gov email system beginning September 30. In a court filing this week, the State Department admitted it had found Benghazi-related documents among the 14,900 Clinton emails and attachments uncovered by the FBI that Mrs. Clinton deleted and withheld from the State Department.
Its simple chlorines – Everyone with a brain cell knows that Trump stands for nothing but himself… he changes position according to the wind. ..i would say most of his supporters support him because he says things they want to say – basically summed up as if you’re white you’re alright.. and as long as he that position people like you will put up with anything else he says. That’s why he gets support from white supremacists etc – he’d making it acceptable to be a racist.. which he is.
Racists in America have created this amazing trick in places like Fox and Breitbart that its worse to call someone a racist then to actually say racist things. Its quite a remarkable feat that 10 or 20 years ago would have had people kicked out of public life… they’ve actually reversed the tables like this:
- you’re a racist
- oh my god i can’t believe you called me a racist shame on you
- but you say racist things
- you’re a disgrace for calling me a racist
And so on and so forth.
Donald Trump’s daughter is married to a Jewish person and she converted to Judaism .
Thankfully in that case, the apple has fallen very, very far from the tree.
Irrelevant to the Hillary cooperative media.
ah the old “some of my best friends are jewish / black /etc” line
Patrick, since when has someone being married to a Jewish person mattered at all to you. For example Huma Abedin. The same fact can’t prove opposite things for two people
@Dave O’Keeffee-Trump’s daughter and husband are both practicing Jews adhering to Judaism’s moral precepts. Huma Abedin marriage was one of convenience only to a pervert and fell apart after discovering the following as reported in http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/huma-abedin-hillary-clinton-adviser
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—”’My Twitter was hacked.” In fact, despite what he told Abedin and the media, Weiner had mistakenly tweeted a photograph of his erection, meant for a 21-year-old college student in Seattle, to his 45,000 followers. Reporters besieged him.—-”
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It should be noted that Huma Abedin’s family are Salafist Muslim belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood and as such ,Huma ,for marrying a non-Muslim woule be ‘Honour Killed’ by now. Agent provocateur Huma Abedin is still around in high places with Hillary Clinton.
So her husband sent a dick pic and she is still alive, those are your what you’re presenting as proof that she’s a terrorist?
“I know Huma to be an intelligent, upstanding, hard-working, and loyal servant of our country and our government.” – Sen. John McCain
Also, their marriage didn’t fall apart, they are still married
@Dave O Keeffe-John McCain-Amerca’s most accomplished liar and traitor.No wonder he speaks highly of Agent Provocateur Huma Abedin.
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—-”John McCain: Privileged ‘War Hero’, Liar, Collaborator, Traitor http://educate-yourself.org/cn/earlhopperinterview08feb08.shtml
Part 1
—”The impression that McCain and the media has attempted to portray of McCain’s 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam is about as far from the truth that one could possible go. McCain, from the first moments of his capture, had behaved as a COLLABORATOR and propaganda tool for his North Vietnamese captors. McCain had engaged in no less than 30, and likely as many as 38 anti-American propaganda broadcasts for Radio Hanoi during the period of his captivity. Far from the image of a dedicated American “hero” sweating it out in a North Vietnamese prisoner’s “hotbox” for 5 1/2 years, McCain was often given “special” treatment by his captors, who were fully aware of his father’s and grandfather’s 4 star admiral positions with the Navy.
No one has ever witnessed McCain’s supposed “torture” at the hands of his jailers. The consensus opinion of other POWs in McCain’s camps was that McCain was NEVER tortured by the North Vietnamese. McCain’s disgraceful and wholly reprehensible conduct (along with John Kerry) during the 1991-93 Senate Committee on POW/MIAs leaves no doubt that McCain is a traitor to this country and its veterans and especially to the families of POWs and MIAs. ..Ken Adachi].—”
Dave you are full to the gills of shit.
PJ is so funny, I would love to be there when that moment of clarity finally breaks through the epic delusion.
Patrick, what reprehensible behaviour while serving on the Senate committee? By the way, your source got the year wrong in that one as well
So his wife spat on him, isn’t that classed as assault in America? I don’t see how this has relevance to Trump himself. Just more boring smear
As you can see from Patrick’s tin foil hat theories about Hillary’s assistant it does matter.
Media really pulling out all the stops now, to find something negative on Trump.
Meanwhile Hilary is given a free pass from any criticism or negative headline.
They must all be getting worried. Julian Assange & Wikileaks are said to have a tonne of information on her which they due to release before the election.
you don’t have to pull out all the stops to get DT coverage that makes him look bad, you’re wading through it daily. its like the biblical flood, only its actually happening
@Gunnarsahn- That’s because we don’t hear anything of the criminality of the Clinton camp in the press but it is being pursued by Senator Grassley of ‘The Senate Judiciary Committee’ and all will come to light eventually.
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—”During the course of his looking into Abedin’s S.G.E. status, the senator stumbled upon an O.I.G. “criminal” inquiry, commenced in October 2013, about whether Abedin knowingly got paid for hours she did not work while she was on vacation and maternity leave. The heavily redacted report of the inquiry, dated January 2015, is titled “Huma Abedin. Embezzlement.” Essentially, the O.I.G. found that Abedin was paid $33,140.03 (or $20,331.42 after taxes) in a lump sum as a result of her possibly submitting “false or inaccurate time records resulting in pay received for work hours which should have been charged to sick and/or annual leave.” (The Department of Justice declined to prosecute.)
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/huma-abedin-hillary-clinton-adviser
I know Huma to be an intelligent, upstanding, hard-working, and loyal servant of our country and our government.” – Sen. John McCain
The Press doing its damnest to cover up for Hillary’s State Security breach by bringin’ up muck about Bannon.
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—”The question remains: How was an individual with such extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood allowed high-level access to the State Department? To understand the extreme menace to national security posed by the Abedin-Clinton partnership, read the in-depth DiscoverTheNetworks profile of Hillary’s right-hand woman below.
Huma Abedin was born in 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her father, Syed Abedin (1928-1993), was an Indian-born scholar who had worked as a visiting professor at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz University in the early Seventies.
Huma’s mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is a sociologist known for her strong advocacy of Sharia Law. A member of the Muslim Sisterhood (i.e., the Muslim Brotherhood’s division for women), Saleha is also a board member of the International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief. This pro-Hamas entity is part of the Union of Good, which the U.S. government has formally designated as an international terrorist organization led by the Muslim Brotherhood luminary Yusuf al-Qaradawi.—”’
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259805/huma-abedin-security-breach-hillary-still-hiding-frontpagemagcom
paranoid nonsense, theres a plethora of keyboard warriors out there trying to get this rubbish to stick
Hilary Clinton is a huge supporter of Israel and has guaranteed she will support them in every way possible if she is elected.
Just thought I’d throw that out there for the anti Israel brigade coz I know it will wreck their heads.
Don’t insult Hillary, I did on an article yesterday and it got removed.
People don’t like the truth.
According to you, the article is about Steve Bannon, not Hiliary Clinton. Make up your mind.
Joey only yesterday you were trying to convince us all that she was planning on pulling US support from Israel.. Which is it?
No I wasn’t.
Case of mistaken identity there Paddy. (does happen here)
Joey just because you switch between accounts doesn’t mean it wasn’t you. You’ve been caught out multiple times doing so…
Look, I made no comment regards Hilary Clinton and Israel on any article yesterday. I have my full commenting history in front of me.
As I said, you are mistaken.
And let’s be honest here Paddy.
If I had you would have produced the comment as proof by now.
Joey , unlike you most of us don’t have time to spend all day on The Journal as we have lives however give me about an hour and I’ll get back to you.
Tick……Tock.
The US is a big supporter of Israel, dim bulb.
Paddy, stop trying to talk to these “alt-right” people, I mean fascists.
Alt-right, all night!!
I love how fascists rebrand themselves.
I think that we can all agree that Trump is not a great exponent of liberal tolerance and of diversity.
I think we can all agree that this article is about Steve Bannon not Donald Trump.
@Micheal OLainn-Speak for youself Micheal OLainn -if that’s your real name.
The article is about Steve Bannon in the context of his heading up Trump’s presidential campaign. One way of assessing Trump’s candidacy is to apprise the senior members of his team, both official and unofficial.
Trump selected those who best fit his own prejudiced outlook.
So Patrick, you think that Trump is actually a great exponent of liberal tolerance and diversity! Chucking.
Michael. Stop talking sense to these mow-rons. Anyone who supports this orange ape at this stage is a complete fool. Hillary isn’t the one spouting idiotic nonsense every day to make headlines. When things aren’t going your way, blame the media. These Trump dolts on here forget the media feeding frenzy over the Lewinsky case and Clintons affairs before he became president. Trump is just an outlet to justify their prejudices. Trump is going to lose and going to lose big.
Steve Bannon is not on the election ticket.
No…but while the focus is on the circus the message is getting lost, Trump he gone !
when i was looking for schools for my kids, i looked at Stratford in rathgar, but didn’t apply because they were a jewish school. Am I now an antisemite? this is a nothing story compared to the fact that he BEAT UP HIS EX-WIFE!
I’d never send my daughter to an Educate Together school but that doesn’t mean I hate atheists.
No, but the fact that he didn’t want his kids to grow to be whiney like Jews raise their kids to be makes him an anti-Semite.
He’s dismissed the accusation as unfounded.
Why an anti-Semite? It’s his choice how he wants to raise his kids. You should change your profile pic from Al Gore to PC Principal
Re:joey. Educate together schools are not Atheist schools. They are multi denomination schools. We don’t have any Atheist schools in Ireland.
Joey he’s not likely to hold up his hands and say “yep i said that offensive drivel”
to religious people of a certain mindset, not having their dogma being taught is athiest
@Lee
Could have fooled me.
Joey, that’s easily done
Atheists are very whiney.
“Atheists are so whiney,” whined Joey
It wasn’t a Jewish school, just a school with a lot of Jews, FFS.
What difference does that make?
Whoops there Dave, let the mask slip a little bit there? Ya can’t tar them all with the one brush, remember? Liberal 101?
I have no idea what you’re talking about. His comment doesn’t magically mean something different if it’s a school with a large Jewish student population rather than a school run by Jewish people. But all the same, nice deliberate attempt to deliberately misinterpret an obvious point.
My point was the original poster said it was no big deal that Bannon didn’t want to send his kids to a Jewish school, implying it was for religious reasons. The fact is Bannon didn’t want to send his kids to that school because it had a high Jewish population Iit’s not a religious school, ergo Bannon’s a bigot, just like Trump and his voters. Geddit???
Philip, my apologies, I completely misinterpreted your comment
Don’t like Trump & don’t trust Trump but would still prefer him over Hilary.. It’s the media imbalance that is most upsetting. . Why are they so brazen – it’s like they don’t just want to deceive they want to divide people even further.. I get Trump is divisive – so is Hilary – so the media should be adding reason not more hysteria – reasonble reporting analysis would be “what do we know?well his campaign manager may have made antisemitic comments but if elected, Trump would be the first president to be the parent and grand-parent of observant Jews” society is dividing so bitterly and we are being so let down by our media..
Reprehensible behaviour.
What is it with successful men that they invariably make such poor choice of spouse?
Blaming his wife for his vile opinions? No wonder you’re a Drumpf supporter- he’s a mysogynistic piece of cr*p too.
At least Donald made a good choice that’s certainly one thing in his favour compared to Hilary the doormat.
No woman with any feminist leanings worth her salt could vote for Hilary Clinton…..even if she has a vagina.
Hey Joey_, what is it about brain-dead right-wingers that they make such a poor choice about…everything?
How would I know?
Joey are you telling women who they can and cant vote for?
No.
Just trying to introduce some male logic into the equation.
What’s the difference between male logic and logic? One comes from a dick
Personal attack is the last refuge of the angry-old-white-male-rightwing-reactionary who is devoid of a valid argument.
I think most reasonably objective media watchers will agree that this is pretty stinkin’ muckrakin’ and quite similar to Hillary’s campaign manager Robby Mook’s smeering of Bernie Sanders as a Jew.
—–”Emails released by Wikileaks on Friday showed members of the DNC trading ideas for how to undercut the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, who proved a resilient adversary to Clinton in the Democratic primary. In one email, a staffersuggested the DNC spread a negative article about Sanders’ supporters; in another, the DNC’s chief financial officer suggested that questions about Sanders’ faith could undermine his candidacy.—”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/24/clinton-campaign-blames-russia-wikileaks-sanders-dnc-emails
It would fit Trump’s waspish temperament, attitude and previous generalised remarks that he would be an anti Semite as well as prejudiced against other ethnic, racial and religious groups.
@Micheal OLainn-It would fit your Islamo-Fascist supporting temperament to project your bigotry onto anyone who stands in the way of ye’re agenda.
I’m not standing for the US Presidency. Trump is. Trump is unfit to hold high office.
Islamofascist is the most ridiculous and nonsensical compound word
AKA Liberal Left
I don’t know why Trump doesn’t just hire Bernie Sanders to run his campaign. He’s a good man and they would work well together.
Except for the fact that Trump screws the little guy to make a profit if he can. Over 50% of his campaign donations have been spent on Trump owned companies
No more ‘little guys’ when Trump wins though. Everyone will be big and proud and unscrewoverable.
Where will the little guy disappear to? Or will he screw them out of existence?
He’ll be elevated. No more Mr Little Guys.
You know that the little guy is always the guy at the bottom right? There will always be someone at the bottom
No, the little guy will be medium sized under Trump.
Obesity?
Many of Trumps supporters like, admire and even respect Trump for his highly prejudiced outlook, even allowing for his recent dilution of the rhetoric of his remarks.
Gun crazy republicans and their antisemitic opinions…but enough about Sinn Fein…
Ashkenazi Jews are NOT semetic people, they’re from Europe! These impostors will jump on any bandwagon.
you could write a book on these idiots
I can think of better ways to spend my time.
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