Trump’s former White House adviser Steve Bannon is making plans to open “gladiator schools” in the United States to prepare right-wing disciples for tough and difficult political battles.
Bannon, who served as Trump’s senior adviser in the White House and helped run his 2016 campaign when the MAGA movement was conceived, shared his plans after prevailing in a bitter court fight over his allies’ plan to open a camp of similar evidence in an ancient Italian Monastery.
This came after Benjamin Harnwell, a former British Conservative MEP and Bannon acolyte, prevailed after efforts to prevent him from renting the 13th-century Trisulti Charterhouse.
The European political “gladiator school” is planned inside the former charterhouse on the slopes of Mount Rotonaria, in the Latium 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” within the US, after he and ally Benjamin Harnwell prevailed in an Italian court following moves to prevent them from opening an academy in a 13th century Italian monastery.
He then advanced plans for similar efforts within the United States, a day after former President Donald Trump effectively secured the Republican presidential nomination when his rival Nikki Haley dropped out of the race.
‘We have started an Academy for the Judeo-Christian West. “It is essentially a gladiator school for modern information age political warfare,” Bannon said. ‘And we are going to do it in a monastery in Rome, it is a kind of headquarters, but we will do it throughout the United States and Western Europe. And in other places: let’s take people from Asia, let’s take people from India. And train people how to win. This is a populist nationalist academy,” he said, outlining long-range plans.
Describing the mission on both continents, Bannon said it would focus on “how to teach you to be a force multiplier, how to teach you to go out into the world and be a combatant, how to teach you to go out into the world.” and to be both a gladiator and a legionnaire’, using his characteristic martial rhetoric.
He said trials of a “force multiplier” school, potentially in the west, would be underway soon.
During the protracted legal battle in Italy, state prosecutors sued to try to block the effort, alleging that it was a fraudulent lease and that Harnwell was delinquent on rent payments. A judge ruled in his favor Thursday, acquitting him of rental and leasing charges.
“Steve Bannon’s Academy for the Judeo-Christian West, the ‘gladiator school,’ lives to fight another day,” Harnwell said. political Europe, while criticizing “politically motivated” prosecutions. “They destroyed my reputation with accusations that they knew were not true even at the time they made them,” she 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 court fight. Bannon is a trustee of the institute.
An image taken with payment shows a general view of the Trisulti Certosa di Trisulti Monastery in Collepardo
Bannon spoke about American ‘gladiator schools’ on his War Room podcast
The Italian effort sparked protests, national media criticism, an eviction and a nearly five-year court fight amid activists’ opposition to the use of the former facility as a new laboratory for right-wing politics designed to help dispatch to Trump-style figures. throughout the continent.
italian newspaper republic had reported that a letter used to guarantee the lease was forged, although Harnwell called the new ruling a complete exoneration.
Italy’s Ministry of Culture attempted to revoke the twenty-year lease.
A planned curriculum included “Cultural Marxism” and “The Church as an Early Business Enterprise.”
“We’re going to rip everything a person is from this world and throw it in the trash” to turn them into an activist, Harnwell told Voice of America in 2019.
The tenant, called the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI), stated that its goal 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 judicial battle, Europe has seen advances of populist and nationalist movements in Spain, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia.