Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images for SiriusXM
Get the VICE App on iOS and AndroidThe newly minted CEO of the Trump campaign, Breitbart's Steve Bannon, was accused of domestic violence in the 1990s by his former wife, according to documents obtained by the New York Post.Bannon's wife at the time, Mary Louise Piccard, said in divorce documents that Bannon grabbed her around "the throat and arm" and threatened to take their young twin daughters during a fight on New Year's Day, 1996."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 fucking cunt,'" Piccard said. Police eventually arrived at the scene and an officer report made note of the marks on Piccard's neck and wrist.She also claims that Bannon refused to marry her after learning of her pregnancy until he was sure that the twins were "normal."The abuse charges were later dropped against Bannon when Piccard did not show up for the court proceedings, allegedly because Bannon told her to skip town, because if she went to court "he and his attorney would make sure that I would be the one who was guilty," Piccard said in the documents.Read: The Latest Campaign Shakeup Does Not Look Good for Donald Trump