Inside the weekly civics class that Steve Bannon, the former Trump strategist, has been teaching in federal prison.
a weekly civics class to a roomful of felons, according to multiple sources . The purpose of such classes, as stated in the prison’s handbook, was to provide the tools for inmates to “reintegrate into today’s world,” but Bannon’s class seemed like more of an opportunity for’s constituency of imprisoned admirers to gather and commune with one of the former president’s most loyal acolytes — not to mention a celebrity.
“Wasn’t that what you were trying to do on Jan. 6?” Bannon asked, eliding his own alleged complicity in the events of that day. “To make Trump king?” “You are smarter than 95 percent of Americans,” Bannon told his pupils, adding that they were the smartest group he’d ever taught including, it would seem, hisminions. He asked questions and called on inmates to pose their own queries, in the manner of his alma mater Harvard Business School, followed by a peppering of his views on contemporary events as the campaign unfolded.“Money is not courageous,” Bannon offered. “Money is cowardice. Money wants stability.
Another student lamented that Biden’s supposedly lax border policies had deflated the price of a brick of cocaine, from $28,000 to $12,000. Bannon said that if he lived in a poor and violent country, he would be doing the same thing — trying to immigrate to America, regardless of the laws and borders.
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