Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania for US after travel ban lifted
Summary
Andrew and Tristan Tate have left Romania for the US after officials lifted their travel ban.
The brothers, arrested in 2022, face charges of rape, human trafficking, and money laundering but were granted temporary permission to travel.
Romania’s government denies US interference, though reports suggest Trump’s envoy discussed their case. The Tates, also wanted in the UK for past allegations, must return for a March court hearing.
Prosecutors accuse them of exploiting women through the “loverboy” method and profiting millions from forced pornography. Both deny all charges.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/27/andrew-tate-tristan-romania-usOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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They’ll be appointed to government positions soon.
I remember when I thought Tony Abbott appointing himself 'Minister for Women' back in 2013 was the height of absurdity.
Now the Tate brothers will likely have some position in the US government.
We live in 'interesting' times.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
He was also the minister of indigenous affairs. Pretty wild for a horrible racist.
Remember Mitt (Binders Fulla Women) Romney? We were still traumatized by Bush 2 and then there's this scumbag possibly the next president? It feels quaint that I thought we were as low as we could get as a country. Luckily the other less scummy scumbag won... no point in typing out the rest.
They will be leading the new government department called RAPE (Republican Advocacy for Patriarchy Enforcement)
Named official envoy to... Romania, so that he can go back and pick right up where he left off, except now he'll have diplomatic immunity.
Remember when pedos got beat down instead of protected?
Iirc, there was supposed to be a fight scene, but Ford was suffering from terrible diarrhea on set, so they came up with this to keep it short, lol.
I heard he'd forgotte his line and just improvised but the comedy went over so well they decided to film it again for realsies.
I'm absolutely disgusted by this. These guys were trafficking and raping young women (kids?) and Trump thinks this is not only OK but to be encouraged? And Romania... WTF?
Trump is looking for his new Epstein. Remember, he partied with both Epstein and Maxwell, flying over half a dozen times on Epstein's private plane, "The Lolita Express."
Like with anything the GOP accuses Dems of, the sex trafficking ring was projection.
Which pizza parlor do you suppose they do their satanic rituals in?
I'd be cool with him getting the Epstein treatment.
Don't forget that Trump and Epstein used to fly on Trump's private jet as well, along with the young contestants of Trump Beauty Pagents, who Trump says he liked to "surprise" by opening the door of the changing rooms at the pagents.
Yes, those girls were about 15 and Trump used to try to catch them naked in the dressing rooms. And he bragged about it.
It probably wasn't projection, it was eliminating the competition.
while i'm sure there's democrats doing this shit, it's hard not to notice there's a lot more smoke and flames the farther to the right, politically, you look
Lol, Trump rapes kids
He still needs some quality people and can give them a governmental position. They fit right in.
"Travel" 😉 I'm sure they'll be back for the trial
I don't understand this.
Venezuelans escaping from a communist dictator: ❌ Fuck them, send back to their country where they will be tortured and imprisoned
Same for Haitians
A serial rapist that boasts and is proud to be a serial rapist: ✔️ Yes please, we like people like this
Republicans and Trump are evil pieces of shit, which means they will do the absolute worst thing possible every time.
Best and brightest?
One has money.
I'm not one to defend communists, but Maduro is a socialist dictator.
These creeps are going to be appointed to the cabinet aren't they?
Yup
It's all to make people be angry, rage and riot so trump can justify calling either rrhe military, or his Nazi goons to attack citizens as a display of his power.
Yeah, I know. They're looking for an excuse to impose martial law.
what the hell is this?! will someone please reboot this fucking universe! I am disgusted to be alive right now.
The world is rebooting at the moment. The old systems are breaking down, the new system is still being written and in the meantime all kinds of rogue elements run havoc.
Remember kids, that's why boot security is important.
:(
Well said
I’m always so optimistic—[…]
(that’s where I’ll terminate that thought for now, too early for it)
You want a reboot? Well, incedentally a lot of this shit is in America, a country that reportedly has more guns than people. Time to start using them.
Republicans are all about hating and abusing women these days. That and greed. The Tates will be hailed as heroes for their raping and trafficking, and for profiting off it.
I thought Trump was supposed to be deporting criminal immigrants.
Make sure you read the trump thesaurus,
criminal: brown, black, non-english-speaking
Don't forget poor
But the tates love minors, and committing sexual crimes, so it's something trump loves and wants more of.
And they hate women with a vengeance, which will make them extra popular.
Rape isn’t a big deal according to trump supporters
Import, deport. What’s the difference?
Can someone Luigi this guy too?
Prime target to get luigied
Can't say I'm surprised. There were credible rumous that the US pressured our gvt to release them. Word on the street is that they "traded" handing these two over in exchange for the US shutting up about the arrest of the russian puppet candidate. These both happened in the same day, so there may some truth to that. Honestly this wouldn't feel like that bad of a deal - one manchurian candidate for two instagram pimps. It's immoral, cowardly and corrupt, but these are the times we're living in.
Just remember this every time a US official blabbers stuff about other countries' election interference.
Wait…they arrested trump??
Trump protecting his own
Joint chiefs of misogyny.
They'll probably head up HUD- Building future slums to pump out more poor traumatised girls for their sick shit.
Post has already been filled by the only person of color in the cabinet (to my knowledge). Just like last time, they saw the word urban and picked the only black person they know.
The US is trying desperately hard to achieve scumbag singularity. PeRsEcUtEd white South Africans? Bring em on! Scumfuck manosphere influencers? Let's bring them home! Rich assholes no longer welcome in their home country? Yeah, will that be cash or check?
Though, the thought occurs that the scumbag concentration increases on a curve that's inverse of the square root of distance from the White House. Maybe all these assholes will just gel together in DC like some Sci Fi mutant scumbag blob and we can just, like, cast fire on it or cut the city adrift into the Atlantic to go become some old sailor's myth like the Flying Dutchman or Belgium.
We don't want these cunts back.
National IQ in the US is about to drop a couple of points.
I don't think our collective IQ was that high to begin with...77million idiots voted for trump a second time.
I didn't think minus values were possible on standard IQ tests.
Romania denies any corruption, but assures the Tates pinky swear that they will come back to spend 15-20 years in jail, no problem. Our Romanian police correspondent could not provide more details as he said he had to go to the bank before closing time to make a deposit.
Well fuck this all to hell. They both deserve to be underneath the jail and there is so much evidence to prove their guilt. Just disgusting.
It'd be a real shame if the Uber they pick up at the airport spun out and hit a bridge embankment before bursting into flames with the driver miraculously escaping unharmed.
Trump probably sent them an armored limo straight to mar a lago.
You can talk about Trump liking them because they are fellow child-rapists, but the reality is, that isn't enough. Trump doesn't care about anyone but himself. For his administration to go to the effort to help this scum escape prosecution, there has to be something in it for Trump or someone high up enough in the administration to convince him it should be done.
The tricky part is figuring out which of the many child-rapists in the current regime was the one who cared enough.
It is Musk, either because he is a fan or his early 20s geek squad shitheads are.
So did they have to pinky swear they were going to come back for their trial, or did they not even have to bother?
Idaho gonna hate Trump now for being a tater immigrater.
I(llegalTraffickingOf)daho
Deport the illegal aliens!
Yikes. Not great to see.
Only surprised it took this long.
If it makes you any consolation, these people are absolutely miserable on the inside. I recently read a transcript of one of them speaking with an officer and I had to stop counting the amount of psychological red flags. They are suffering on the inside. I mean they need to be in jail too because their actions are affecting others too, but at least I can sleep at night knowing they’re fucking miserable.
I'd prefer them to be suffering on the outside as well.
Where can i read this transcription?
Could you elaborate? I too would also like to sleep at night.
I’ll try and find the transcript when I get home from work, but it went something like this:
Investigator: Could you explain why there are allegations of abuse coming from your workers?
Tate: Oh they’re just saying all that stuff because they’re jealous of me (textbook case of projection; i.e. he is an incredibly jealous person, and so views the actions of others through his own lens; he has a very weak “frame of mind” if you will)
I remember it was full of stuff like this. Jealousy, envy, projection, playing the victim (at multiple points he literally expressed himself as the one who is being victimized by this whole situation), overcompensation, defensiveness…I mean you name it and it was there. You could take a psychology course in just this one interview with the investigator and you could learn quite a bit.
Edit: I should say too that I really struggle to have empathy for those who take their own suffering and promulgate it among those around them (the Tate’s for example). It demonstrates incredibly weak and poor character, and in my opinion (and with working with many, MANY people like this), it is almost impossible for them to get help. They almost never recognize themselves at fault (since they have a superiority complex), and so are incapable of taking that first step towards getting the necessary psychological support needed.
If they don’t want help, fine. Shove these types of people away from society so they don’t make it other people’s problems. They can fester in their own suffering for all I care, as long as it’s far away from others.
I don't think it's unfair to have those kinds of feelings towards incredibly toxic people. The first step to treating mental illness is being aware of the issue. Good luck getting a malignantly narcissistic pieces of shit like the Tate brothers to be aware of anything except their bank accounts.
I remember seeing an interview with him and he had the most expensive TV he could find in his mansion but he never watched it, and that was the perfect summary of his values to me - vapidly pursuing status while not actually being fulfilled in the slightest.
Yup. I’d feel bad for him if he wasn’t also ruining the lives of others as well. For that, I have zero empathy towards.
What the fuck
A victory for cool dudes everywhere that drown in tail and crypto cash!