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Excerpt from NYTimes.



Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, are paragons of the manosphere — influencers who say a man’s role is to dominate women. In 2023, Romanian prosecutors said the brothers had seduced women and then pressed them into performing for the Tates’ pornography business. Andrew was also accused of rape. They were barred from leaving the country while prosecutors built their case.

Earlier this year, though, Romania lifted the travel restrictions. An investigation by my colleagues Megan Twohey and Isabella Kwai found that support from Trump administration officials had played a crucial role in the decision.

“We’re massively back,” a grinning Tate said in a video he posted in February as the brothers flew to Florida by private jet.

For years, Megan and Isabella found, Andrew built relationships with Trump’s advisers and relatives, including Barron Trump, the president’s youngest son. They interviewed dozens of people in Romania, the United States and Britain. They reviewed hundreds of pages of court documents and private messages. Their work explains why the Tates are free again, at least for now.

It can be hard to explain which defendants the Trump administration backs, and why, as my colleague Tyler Pager told me the other day. But apparently even people accused of rape can get a hand, even amid the furor over the Epstein files, if they have the right contacts.

The White House said it had no knowledge of the brothers’ legal issues. The Tates deny any criminal wrongdoing. The Tates’ lawyer said The Times’s reporting on Andrew and Barron was “fake news.”