“Everything you need to know about business or politics can be learned from Godfather I and Godfather II,” inmate 05635-509 told the assembled group of prisoners in Danbury Federal Correctional Institution.
The inmate in a khaki prison-issued shirt and pants with an elastic waist to accommodate his girth — Steve Bannon — was serving a four-month term for contempt of Congress in the lead up to the 2024 election. To pass his time this fall, he was teaching a weekly civics class to a roomful of felons, according to multiple sources (Bannon has declined all interviews while in prison). 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 Donald Trump’s constituency of imprisoned admirers to gather and commune with one…
