"Stephen Bannon, the head of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, faced domestic violence charges after a fight with a woman he was married to 20 years ago, in which she accused him of grabbing her by the neck "violently" and destroying a telephone when she tried to summon police.
"Documents from the Santa Monica, California, police department relating to the case were first published by Politico on Thursday, 25 August 2016. The case was eventually dismissed.
"'She complained of soreness to her neck,' wrote a police officer who responded to the incident. 'I saw red marks on her left wrist and the right side of her neck. These were photographed.'
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"Bannon was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence, battery and dissuading a witness. The case was dismissed. The woman claims in the divorce filing that it was dismissed because Bannon convinced her to leave town, because 'if I wasn't in town they couldn't serve me and I wouldn't have to go to court.'
"'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.'"
One wonders what Bannon's FBI background file looked like and whether he received a permanent clearance before he was granted access to the NSC.
"But the defining moment for Mr. Bannon came Saturday night in the form of an executive order giving the rumpled right-wing agitator a full seat on the 'principals committee' of the National Security Council -- while downgrading the roles of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national intelligence, who will now attend only when the council is considering issues in their direct areas of responsibilities. It is a startling elevation of a political adviser, to a status alongside the secretaries of state and defense, and over the president's top military and intelligence advisers.
"In theory, the move put Mr. Bannon, a former Navy surface warfare officer, admiral's aide, investment banker, Hollywood producer and Breitbart News firebrand, on the same level as his friend, Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser, a former Pentagon intelligence chief who was Mr. Trump's top adviser on national security issues before a series of missteps reduced his influence."
This week White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders was grilled over a slow turning spit about the White House Wife Beaters Club. She continued to say that Kelly didn't know about the abuse allegations until the day after the black eye picture was published and claimed that things were stalled at the personnel security office, even though they weren't since they recommended people with interim clearances be blocked and McGahn asked Porter to resign back in November. She also says that the new Trump budget from yesterday fully funds the Violence Against Women Act, which is funny because the previous one from last year cut that funding by 93 percent.
"A chart buried on page 245 of President Donald Trump's 2018 budget analysis looks alarming: It shows a massive decrease in funding over 10 years for federal programs that aid survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
"The 93 percent cut appeared to confirm the worst fears of survivor advocates and women's activists. They'd been hearing reports that the Trump administration might slash federal funding for counseling services, shelter, legal help and other programs under the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act.
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"After the budget came out this week, the Trump administration rushed to reassure advocates. It advised them to ignore the chart that shows funding for the programs holding steady in 2018, then plummeting from $460 million to eventually $30 million annually within a decade. They said the White House had no plans to gut the Violence Against Women grant programs.
"Most of this year's budget for the programs comes from the federal Crime Victims Fund. In future years, though, the budgets do not assume that money will be transferred from the fund. The administration has yet to determine how it will pay for the programs after this year." (emphasis added)
What. A. Coincidence.
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