Dossier mode

Bannon is the would-be impresario of the far-right international: he tried to build the alliance, the training pipeline, and the cross-border strategy in the open. Documenting it means crediting what was real while noting how much of it collapsed.

The projects and ties are FACT/attributed to reporting; the grand ambition mostly failed, and we say so.

'The Movement': a Brussels bid to unite Europe's populist right — that fizzled.

In 2018 Bannon launched 'The Movement,' a Brussels-based effort to knit Europe's nationalist and populist-right parties into a coordinated bloc ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections, courting figures like Italy's Matteo Salvini, France's Marine Le Pen, and Nigel Farage. It generated headlines and alarm — and little else: European far-right parties largely kept their distance, legal and structural obstacles mounted, and the project faded. The ambition was real; the result was not.

The monastery 'academy': training nationalists at Trisulti — until the eviction.

Bannon backed a plan to turn the Abbey of Trisulti, a former Italian monastery, into an academy for training future European nationalist and populist politicians, run by the Christian-right Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI). Reuters reported in 2018 that Bannon helped craft the curriculum; Cardinal Raymond Burke said Bannon would help lead the effort in 'the defense of what used to be called Christendom.' It never opened: DHI was evicted from the abbey in 2021 for non-payment, and its former chairman, Luca Volontè, was sentenced to four years for corruption over bribes funneled to the institute.

Latin America: the Bolsonaro connection, and the tie to this hub's other cases.

Bannon extended the project to the Americas, publicly aligning himself with the Bolsonaro movement — describing Eduardo Bolsonaro as 'The Movement's' representative for Latin America — and boosting the region's Trump-aligned right. The self-described advisory roles are on the record; the operational depth is murkier. It connects directly to this hub's flagship, Fernando Cerimedo, and the manufactured-'stolen-election' playbook that runs from Brazil 2022 back to the U.S. in 2020. We grade the public alignments FACT and the deeper coordination as attributed, to be pinned case by case.

How this page is graded.

• FACT: 'The Movement' (Brussels, 2018) and its courting of Salvini/Le Pen/Farage; the Trisulti academy plan, Bannon's Reuters-documented curriculum role, the 2021 DHI eviction, and Volontè's corruption conviction; Bannon's public alignment with the Bolsonaro movement.
• ATTRIBUTED / SOME SMOKE: the operational depth of Bannon's Latin America role and any specific coordination beyond public statements.
• NOT hyped: we credit what was real and note plainly that 'The Movement' and the academy largely failed — the ambition outran the results.

Help us fill these lines.

• OpenDocumented (not self-described) coordination between Bannon and specific foreign campaigns.
• OpenThe money behind 'The Movement' and the Trisulti project, and where it came from.
• OpenWhether any trainee or ally of Bannon's networks went on to a documented role in a specific election operation.