Inside Steve Bannon's "gladiator school" for nationalists in an Italian former monastery

Bannon told CBS News that the new school, called the Academy of the Judeo-Christian West, will be a ‘modern gladiator school’ that teaches the foundational tenants of Western people.

‘It’s to give people kind of in mid-career that are looking to do something different, maybe get involved in media, maybe get involved in politics, maybe get involved in NGOs, to give them kind of the underpinnings of the Judeo-Christian West,’ he said.

Bannon’s counterpart, Benjamin Harnwell, a British former political operative, is in charge of creating the academy.

Trisulti is where the monks of Trisulti once created a center for scientific research and innovation during the Middle Ages, cultivating 2,500 types of plants for medicinal purposes.