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Trump’s administration puts pressure on the Romanian authorities to raise travel limitations on the self -written misrogynistic influencer Andrew Tate, the champion of the US president who is facing a criminal complaint in Bucharest.
Andrew and his brother Tristan Dad, who are Dual American and nationals in the UK, have become a Cause of Célèbre In social media right after being arrested in Romania in 2022 and accused of trafficking in people, sexual violation and money laundering, as well as launching a group of organized crime. They denied injustice.
The Tates case was raised for the first week by US officials in a telephone call with the Romanian government, followed by Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell when he met the Romanian Foreign Minister at the Munich Security Conference, according to three people who were aware of the matter.
The fourth person said that a request for the return of the passport brothers had been filed and allowed them to travel while waiting for the court proceedings to be completed.
The Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezean refused to comment on his exchange with Grenell. His spokesman said Hurezean had started a meeting and that they had been “knowing for a long time” because they both served as ambassadors in Berlin during the first Trump presidency.
A spokesman did not comment on their specific discussions, but he said: “Romanian courts are independent and act on the basis of the law, there is a procedure.”
Grenell said there was no “essential conversation” with Hurezean, who “saw me in the hall” in Munich and “sought a meeting”. “I support my dad brothers as visible to my publicly available tweets,” he added.
This month Grenell wrote on x That Romania was a “latest example” how the funds that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) paid “armed against people and politicians who did not wake up.” Trump administration has reduced USAID payment and An attempt to shoot Many of his staff.
The USAID programs were armed against people and politicians who did not wake up.
The Biden team spent taxpayers’ money to support programs and candidates from the left wing around the world.
Conservatives around the world were targeted.
Romania is the latest example. … https://t.co/cmpqyojrzs
– Richard Grenell (@richardgrenell) 3. February 2025
Tristan Tate called on supporters to find out “if any USAID went to Romania to fund any certain investigation into the law of the law” – in an obvious reference to his own cases of his and brother.
The Tate brothers have millions of internet followers in “Manasfer” -internetic platforms aimed at young men who promote male superiority and reject feminism-which played a role in Trump’s re-choice. Tucker Carlson, Trump’s ally and former anchor Fox, did cute interviews with both brothers, urging viewers to “decide” about them.
Tristan dad he boasted x In November, the role of brothers in the US election, claiming that “millions of young men in Europe and the US have a healthy approach to politics that would not have had Andrew Tate never appeared on their phone screens.”
The UK also requires the extradition of the brothers after the Bedfordshire police received an arrest warrant as part of an investigation into charges of rape and trade in people. Romanian court ruled last year that they can be extradited after a final decision came in their case Romania.
A separate civil lawsuit was filed last week by a woman in Florida, who claimed that the brothers forced her to have sex work after luring her to Romania and accused them of slander after testifying against them in Bucharest.
The couple recently secured a legal victory in Romania after the appeal court returned their case to a lower court. They were also released from home custody, but they were not allowed to leave the country.
“The Tate brothers remain fully dedicated to working together with their legal team to investigate every legal path available within the Romanian judicial system,” the brothers said in a written statement.
“Their only focus is to ensure that the procedure is followed and that their innocence is established in court.”
US Vice President JD Vance last week exhausted In the Romanian authorities to cancel the presidential elections, as an example of the alleged suppression of politicians who threatened the European democracy “inside”.
The Constitutional Court of the country in December said he needed an unprecedented step because the election process “missed” highly sophisticated Social media A campaign suspected of being coordinated by Moscow.
Vance said that the cancellation of the vote was based on “fluttering doubts of the intelligence agency and the huge pressure of his continental neighbors.”
The criticism of the US Vice President considered the revenge of the extremely right candidate who surpassed the canceled vote, Călin Georgescuwhich plans to run again in May. The House of Head of his campaign was suffered last week after Georgescu stated that he had spent zero money on his election campaign. If a criminal proceedings are initiated against him, the Constitutional Court could dismiss his offer for the Presidency.
Georgescu interviewed another Mariosphere Influencer on Sunday, Mario Nawfal, which described it on x as a “Romanian President of Romania” who risked their nominations. “The exact book they tried against Trump,” he added.
