UltraViolet on Donald Trump’s New Campaign CEO’s 1996 Domestic Violence Charge
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, August 26, 2016
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UltraViolet on Donald Trump’s New Campaign CEO’s 1996 Domestic Violence Charge
Last night, POLITICO reported that Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO, Stephen K. Bannon, was charged with domestic violence, battery and dissuading a witness in 1996. The charges were eventually dropped due to witness unavailability.
In reaction to the news, Nita Chaudhary, co-founder of UltraViolet Action, a national women’s advocacy organization, issued the following statement:
“News that Donald Trump’s campaign is being run by a man accused of domestic violence is troubling but sadly not surprising. First it was Corey Lewandowski who physically assaulted a female reporter. Then it was Roger Ailes, a serial sexual predator. Now it is Steve Bannon.
“By surrounding himself with men like Lewandowski, Ailes and Bannon, Trump is showing women, and all voters, exactly what kind of person he is and exactly what kind of President he’ll be.
“As Senator Elizabeth Warren has said, personnel is policy. The hiring, and standing by, of men who have records of abusing women once again shows how he is unfit to be President.”
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