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Photo: JOEL SAGET/AFP
Photo: JOEL SAGET/AFP
What the man who has Trump’s ear learned in prison
First published in The Atlantic on October 21, 2025.
by Jonathan D. Karl, The Atlantic
October 23, 2025 | reading time: 16 Min.
The adult-education program at Federal Correctional Institution Danbury needed a civics teacher. Conveniently, a new prisoner with a history of intimate involvement in American politics—inmate No. 05635-509—needed a work assignment. And that is how Steve Bannon, the man who stood accused of helping orchestrate an effort to undermine American democracy and to overturn a presidential election, found himself on the federal payroll making 25 cents an hour teaching civics to fellow convicts.
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