Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is making plans to open ‘gladiator schools’ in the US to prepare right-wing disciples for the rough political fight.
Bannon, who served as Trump’s chief adviser in the White House and helped steer his 2016 campaign when the MAGA movement was conceived, shared his plans after prevailing in a fierce lawsuit over his allies’ plan to create a to open a similar testing ground in a centuries-old prison. Italian monastery.
That came after former British Conservative European Parliament aide and Bannon acolyte Benjamin Harnwell gained the upper hand following attempts to stop him from leasing the 13th-century Trisulti Charterhouse.
The European political ‘gladiator school’ is planned in the former Carthusian monastery on the slopes of Monte Rotonaria in the Lazio region.
“This was the Deep State that came after the populist nationalist movement,” Bannon said on his podcast Thursday.
Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon said he plans to open ‘gladiator schools’ in the US after he and ally Benjamin Harnwell prevailed in an Italian court following attempts to stop them from opening an academy in a 13th century Italian monastery
He then teased plans for similar efforts in the US, a day after former President Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican presidential nomination when rival Nikki Haley withdrew from the race.
‘We have started an Academy for the Judeo-Christian West. It is essentially a gladiatorial school for modern political warfare in the information age,” Bannon said. ‘And we’re going to do it in a monastery in Rome, it’s kind of a headquarters, but we’re doing it in the United States and Western Europe. And in other places – take people from Asia, take people from India. And train people how to win. This is a populist-nationalist academy,” he said, outlining far-reaching plans.
Describing the mission on both continents, Bannon said it would focus on “how to learn to be a force multiplier, how to learn to go out into the world and be a warrior – how to learn to go out into the world.” and be both a gladiator and a legionnaire,” using his signature martial rhetoric.
He said testing would soon take place at a “force-multiplier” school, possibly in the West.
During the protracted legal battle in Italy, prosecutors filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block the effort, claiming it was a fraudulent lease agreement and that Harnwell was behind on rent payments. A magistrate judge ruled in his favor on Thursday and acquitted him on the rental and lease costs.
“Steve Bannon’s Academy for the Judeo-Christian West – the ‘gladiator school’ – lives to fight another day,” Harnwell said Politics Europe while bashing ‘politically driven’ prosecutions. “They destroyed my reputation with accusations they knew were untrue even at the time they made them,” he said.
The Italian state allowed the conservative Catholic organization Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI) to use the building in 2018. It then faced an eviction and a lawsuit. Bannon is a trustee of the institute
A paid photo shows a general view of the Trisulti Monastery Certosa di Trisulti in Collepardo
Bannon has plugged American ‘gladiator schools’ into his War Room podcast
The Italian efforts had sparked protests, criticism in national media, an expulsion and a nearly five-year court battle, amid activists’ backlash against using the century-old facility as a new laboratory for right-wing politics, designed to help direct Trump-style figures. across the continent.
Italian newspaper Republic had reported that a letter used to guarantee the lease was forged, although Harnwell called the new ruling a total release.
The Italian Ministry of Culture tried to revoke the twenty-year lease.
A planned curriculum included “Cultural Marxism” and “The Church as an Early Business Venture.”
“We’re going to rip out and throw away everything in a person who is of this world” to turn them into activists, Harnwell told Voice of America in 2019.
The leaseholder, called the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI), stated that its purpose was “to protect and promote human dignity, based on the anthropological truth that man is born in the image and likeness of God.”
During the years of the legal struggle, Europe has seen the gains of populist, nationalist movements in Spain, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia.