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Trump campaign CEO accused in divorce papers of attacking wife

The man hired to remake Donald Trump’s image roughed up and threatened his wife during their marriage, she claimed in court documents obtained by The Post.

Stephen K. Bannon, the new CEO of the Trump campaign, grabbed then-wife Mary Louise Piccard “by the throat and arm,” and threatened “to take the girls and leave,” referring to their twin daughters, according to a declaration she filed in their divorce case, which began in the mid-1990s.

“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 [was] screaming that I was a ‘crazy f—ing c–t!,’” according to the document.

Police responded to the New Year’s Day 1996 clash, and wrote up a report and took pictures of the victim’s injuries, the document said.





Bannon then got his lawyer on the case, who allegedly “threatened” Piccard and told her she “would have no money [and] no way to support the children” if the case went to trial.

Bannon then told Piccard to skip town.

He said “that if I wasn’t in town they couldn’t serve me and I wouldn’t have to go to court,” she claimed in the document.

“He also told me that if I went to court he and his attorney would make sure that I would be the one who was guilty. I was told that I could go anywhere in the world.”

Piccard left for two weeks before Bannon’s attorney said she could return, according to the declaration.

“Because I was not present at the trial, the case was dismissed,” she said in the documents.





Bannon had allegedly also earlier told Picccard, who was then his girlfriend and the expectant mother of their twin girls, that he would only agree to marry her if the kids were “normal.”

He married her on April 14, 1995, three days before the twins were born.

“Bannon made it clear that he would not marry me just because I was pregnant. I was scheduled for an amniocentesis and was told by the respondent that if the babies were normal we would get married,” Piccard claimed in a document.

“After the test showed that the babies were normal the respondent sent over a prenuptial agreement for me to review.”

Piccard alleged in another document that Bannon believed in corporal punishment for the girls, even though he rarely saw them.





She cited as one example that Bannon allegedly spanked one of his toddler daughters to try to stop her from hitting her head against the crib.

Piccard claimed that when she intervened, he exploded, calling her “f—ing crazy” and saying if he hadn’t been interrupted, “she wouldn’t be banging her head anymore.”

“I have no comment and neither does my daughter,” Piccard told The Post.

A representative for Bannon told The Post, “Steve has a great relationship with his ex-wife and his twins.”

Before joining Team Trump, Bannon was the head of Breitbart News, an ultra-conservative website.





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