Stephen Bannon, the CEO of the Donald Trump campaign, made anti-Semitic remarks over a private school in Los Angeles that accepted his twin daughters, his ex-wife charged during a court battle over post-divorce financial issues.
Bannon’s second wife, Mary Louise Piccard, said in a sworn court declaration that Bannon did not want to send his daughters to the Archer School for Girls for the 2007-08 school year because, he said, he “didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews,” the Associated Press reported on Aug. 27.
“He said he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiny brats,’” Piccard said in a 2007 court filing.
Bannon took over as the head of Trump’s presidential campaign last week. He previously served as executive chairman of the conservative website Breitbart News, which the Hillary Clinton campaign has charged as being anti-Semitic.
Bannon spokeswoman Alexandra Preate denied that Bannon made anti-Semitic comments about the school.
The AP also cited remarks that his ex-wife said Bannon made while visiting private schools in 2000. At one, Bannon reportedly asked the director why there were so many books about Hanukkah in the library. — jta