Trump admin trying to get Andrew Tate out of Romania

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Trump Administration Wants to Help Get Professional Misogynist Andrew Tate out of Romania

Tate and his brother are charged with human trafficking, sexual misconduct, and money laundering.
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Off in the depths of the QAnon and PizzaGate corners of the internet, conspiracists swear Donald Trump is quietly preparing charges to bring down notorious sex trafficking circles operated by celebrities. Back in reality, the Financial Times reports the Trump administration is pressuring Romanian authorities to let Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate travel freely despite facing charges of sexual misconduct and human trafficking.

Per the report, Trump officials have been pushing for Romania to return the Tates’ passports and lift travel restrictions on the brothers, who have been banned from leaving the country until their criminal case concludes. The pressure campaign started on phone calls last week and then got raised in-person when Trump special envoy Richard Grenell, who met with the Romanian foreign minister Emil Hurezeanu at the Munich Security conference.

Grenell—who served as Trump’s ambassador to Germany during his first term only to get iced out by German leaders for cozying up with the far-right, Nazi-aligned (and now Elon Musk-backed) Alternative for Germany (AfD)—has been publicly supportive of the Tates. In a post made earlier this month, Grenell seemed to suggest the Tate brothers were the victims of a concerted effort to target “conservatives around the world,” which he believed was funded by USAID programs.
 
superrific said:
Why? What's in it for Trump? Who the fuck cares about Andrew Tate?
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Apparently Barron Trump, for one.

There is also a through-line from Gamergate to the Silicon Valley Tech Bros and Andrew Tate is a hero to many of them. One of the DOGE Musketeers had some online communications with Tate in his background, for instance.

But this is probably about the Elon Musk version of “free speech” that JD Vance was sent to lecture Europe about. Tate is seen as a victim of big government censorship by the same Libertarians who agitated for the pardon (well they had hoped for a commutation, Trump went further) of Ross Ulbricht.
 
nycfan said:
Apparently Barron Trump, for one.

There is also a through-line from Gamergate to the Silicon Valley Tech Bros and Andrew Tate is a hero to many of them. One of the DOGE Musketeers had some online communications with Tate in his background, for instance.

But this is probably about the Elon Musk version of “free speech” that JD Vance was sent to lecture Europe about. Tate is seen as a victim of big government censorship by the same Libertarians who agitated for the pardon (well they had hoped for a commutation, Trump went farther) of Ross Ulbricht.
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