What are Trump's connections to the Tate brothers exactly? Rebecca Solnit
Donald Trump has told many stories and denied many others about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. But those questions center on Epstein’s actions and crimes, which Trump says he denounces and wasn’t a part of. The White House has moved heaven, earth, the truth and much else to protect Trump from what the Epstein files might tell us about him. But there is a larger question about what Trump makes of Epstein’s values. Does he reject them, or does he endorse and embrace them? Looking to his administration’s ties to Andrew Tate may be instructive.
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Blake reports that in 2014, as he realized his career as a kickboxer had limited financial possibilities, he moved on: “Webcam porn, now a multibillion-dollar industry, was then a nascent phenomenon, and Tate considered himself a pioneer,” she writes. Porn may be an inadequate description: a webcam worker performs live for remote customers, and the pressure to meet their demands is ongoing.
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The Tate brothers left the UK “after three British women accused Andrew of rape and strangulation”, Blake continues, and relocated to Romania, where they operated with impunity for almost a decade, building a webcam empire with women and girls who were recruited. According to messages from Andrew reviewed by the Times, some of them became essentially captive, prevented from leaving and punished and threatened, if they succeeded in doing so. At one point, 75 women were working for them.
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There are many ways that Trump and his associates have told us that human rights and human life mean nothing to them, from the 2024 campaign lies about Haitian immigrants in Ohio to the brutalities of masked ICE goons across the USA, to the dismantling of USAID, to the murder of civilians in small boats in the Caribbean to the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran, to name only a few more dramatic examples. But who they are is shown not just by who they choose to harm. It’s shown by who the Trump family has sought to ally with and protect.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/24/andrew-tate-trump-relationship
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