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Stephen K. Bannon, who came to fame as the executive chairman of the right-leaning news web site Breitbart and even greater fame when he was tapped to be CEO of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in August 2016, quickly found himself fending off ghosts from the past when it was revealed that he had been charged with domestic violence and battery in an incident involving his ex-wife in 1996. Politico summarized the police report: However, the charges were dismissed when Bannon's then-wife failed to appear in court, and a Trump spokesperson has stated that the revelation would not affect his future with the campaign. On 26 August 2016, the entertainment web site Politicops weighed in with a satirical take on Bannon's marital difficulties, excerpted below: All of these quotes are fictitious. Bannon has made no such defense of domestic violence. Politicops and its companion sites under the Newslo banner specialize in over-the-top political spoofery based on nuggets of real news: In the case of this article, the fact-button highlights one short paragraph stating the basic facts of the 1996 domestic violence incident.
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