The Tate Brothers/Trump Family Saga You Won’t Believe. (Actually, you will).

This article is so classic Trump, that it will be greeted with either ho-hum or outrage that it even was published, depending on which side of sanity you vote.

Here is just the tip of it. Read the whole thing for the full context. It gets better (i.e. worse) the more you read.

Trump Has a Tate Problem;

The Manosphere Titans Are Tearing MAGA in Two, Michael Fanone and Peter Rothpletz July 28

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are sitting in a federal detention center in Florida, fighting extradition to the United Kingdom, where they face 59 criminal charges between them.

The Trump administration isn’t driving this, exactly. British prosecutors brought the charges and requested the brothers’ extradition; U.S. Marshals arrested the brothers in Miami on July 18, and last Thursday the White House said only that it would not intervene. As Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it, there was “no role for us to play at this moment or maybe ever.”

Even that much passivity is causing discord within MAGA, because they’ve loved these fucking freaks for years.

In May 2023, Donald Trump Jr. called the Romanian detention of Andrew Tate “absolute insanity,” and in June 2024 he joined a livestream with Tate, telling him: “you’ve got people attacking you as far as I’m concerned.”

Elon Musk endorsed Tate’s takes on British politics in a January 2025 post.

And Barron Trump cultivated a relationship with Andrew Tate, a connection the New York Times documented in December 2025.

Justin Waller, a Tate associate, says he arranged and sat in on a video call between the two men. Barron admired Tate, Waller claims, and spoke with him over Zoom once in 2024, while Barron was being fitted for a suit. The three discussed their shared belief that the Romanian criminal case was an effort to silence the Tates.

Tate, Waller claims, became a “big brother” to Barron.

Here was a self-described misogynist facing serious charges involving human trafficking, a man Romanian prosecutors accused of forming an organized criminal group to sexually exploit women. And the MAGA movement treated him as one of its own.

Then, at the Munich Security Conference in mid-February 2025, Romania’s foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, pulled Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell aside in a hallway for a brief conversation that touched on the Tates, who’d been banned from traveling.

The Financial Times reported that US officials had already raised the case on an earlier phone call, and that a request had been made to return the brothers’ passports and let them travel before their case concluded.

Isn’t it normal for accused criminals, especially when accused of sex crimes, to treated as brothers by the oh, so, very religious right?

Meanwhile, much to the delight of the MAGAs, we lock up and deport undocumented men, women and children, who have NO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND.

This has made America great, again.

Grenell told the FT he had “no substantive conversation” with Hurezeanu, though he did not deny discussing the brothers, and added that he supports them “as evident by my publicly available tweets.”

Hurezeanu, for his part, said the exchange was cordial, informal and brief, and that he didn’t feel pressured.

Within days, the Romanian travel ban was lifted. Shocker…

Read the rest of the article here, and please let me know whether you find ANY of it hard to believe.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell