The Dignitatis Humanae Institute, which is working with President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon to found an academy in Italy to defend Judeo-Christian civilisation, today fought off the Italian government’s latest attempt to remove the academy from an historic abbey near Rome.
DHI chairman Benjamin Harnwell, who has always protested his innocence in the face of the state’s accusations, said the court action to remove him from the Trisulti Charterhouse has been entirely politically motivated.
“The Ministry of Culture simply wanted me out because I proudly work with Steve Bannon, the architect of Donald Trump’s historic 2016 victory, and because literally every day I energetically supported Matteo Salvini and his heroic blockade of illegal migration in Italy,” Harnwell said in a statement (see below).
“The political left initiated an unprecedented public campaign of lies and character assassination against me, which the Ministry of Culture was only too happy to accommodate,” he added.
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Today the Court of Auditors totally absolved the Dignitatis Humanae Institute from the outrageous and politically motivated accusations that the DHI had not paid the rent for the Monastery of Trisulti.
Benjamin Harnwell, chairman of the DHI, said: ‘Contrary to what has universally appeared in the world’s newspapers, the 2018 rent was not owed and the DHI fulfilled its contractual obligations with respect to all payments due.
The Ministry of Culture simply wanted me out because I proudly work with Steve Bannon, the architect of Donald Trump’s historic 2016 victory, and because literally every day I energetically supported Matteo Salvini and his heroic blockade of illegal migration in Italy.
The left should know I am totally unrepentant of these two facts. I will never give in to their bullying or absolute intolerance of those who have different political views from theirs.
For these two motives, the political left initiated an unprecedented public campaign of lies and character assassination against me, which the Ministry of Culture was only too happy to accommodate.
I take great comfort from the fact that everything political I was saying publicly was affirmed at the ballot box at the last European Elections, when literally half the electorate in the Ciociaria voted for the Lega; and that everything legal I was saying since the lease annulment has been upheld in the courts.
The DHI has now won seven legal decisions out of seven. As the remaining cases are now drawing to their successful close, I can start to return my attention to fulfilling our lease obligations at Trisulti, and preserving this fantastic monument for future generations to enjoy.
Benjamin Harnwell
Chairman, DHI
Fantastic news!🙏🏻
That would be worth a visit!
The Italian govrenment will fall within 48 hours