Former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon is making plans to open 'gladiator schools' in the U.S. to prepare right-wing disciples for the rough and tumble of political combat.
Bannon, who served as chief counselor to Trump in the White House and helped steer his 2016 campaign when the MAGA movement was conceived, shared his plans after prevailing in a slashing court fight over his allies' plan to open a similar proving ground in an ancient Italian monastery.
That came after Benjamin Harnwell, former British Conservative European Parliament aide and Bannon acolyte, prevailed after efforts to block him from leasing the 13th century Trisulti Charterhouse.
The European political 'gladiator school' is planned inside the former Carthusian monastery on the slopes of Monte Rotonaria in the region of Lazio.
'This was the Deep State coming after the populist nationalist movement,' Bannon said on his podcast Thursday. Then he teased plans for similar efforts inside the U.S., a day after former President Donald Trump effectively secured the Republican presidential nomination when rival Nikki Haley dropped out of the race.
'We have started a Academy for the Judeo Christian West. It's essentially a gladiator school for modern Information Age political warfare,' Bannon said. 'And we're going to do it in a monastery in Rome, it's kind of the headquarters, but do it throughout the United States and Western Europe.
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And other places – take people from Asia, take people from India. And train people of how to win. This is populist nationalist, academy,' he said, outlining far-reaching 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 in the world and be a combatant – how to teach you to go out in the world and be a both a gladiator and a legionnaire,' using his trademark martial rhetoric.
He said there would be upcoming tests of a 'force-multiplier' school, potentially out West.
During the prolonged legal battle in Italy, state prosecutors sued to try to block the effort, charging that it was a fraudulent lease and Harnwell was delinquent on rent payments. A magistrate judge ruled in his favor Thursday, clearing him on the rent and lease charges.
'Steve Bannon's Academy for the Judeo-Christian West — the 'gladiator school' — lives to fight another day,' Harnwell told Politico Europe while bashing 'politically driven' prosecutions. 'They destroyed my reputation with accusations they knew weren't true even at the time they were making them,' he said. Source
My guess is that this Gladiator School is just another grift to part the rubes from their money. After the "promotors" have taken their cut the scheme will shut down, never to be heard from again! IIRC wasn't Stevie B involved in a scheme few years ago to raise $$$ to help build the "Wall"? How did that turn out?
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