New York Post

Don’s new chief had abuse rap

- Daniel Halper, Kelly Hartog

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 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” — a reference to their twin daughters — according to a declaratio­n Piccard filed in their divorce case, which began in the mid-’90s.

“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- -king c- -t!’ ” she said in the documents.

Police were called amid the New Year’s Day 1996 clash, and Bannon (inset) was slapped with domestic-violence and other charges.

Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, then got his lawyer, who allegedly “threatened” Piccard, telling 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 papers.

“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.

The charges related to the domestic-violence incident were eventually dropped.

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

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