Andrew Tate: Rape and sex trafficking-charged Andrew Tate lands in Florida, quiet on Trump link

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Self-described misogynist Andrew Tate has touched down in the US after his travel ban was lifted.
Self-described misogynist Andrew Tate has touched down in the US after his travel ban was lifted. Credit: AAP

Internet figure and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Romania, shortly after prosecutors lifted a travel ban related to criminal charges against them.

The Tate brothers are under criminal investigation in Romania on accusations of forming an organised criminal group, human trafficking, trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering. They have denied all wrongdoing.

“We have no criminal record anywhere on the planet, ever,” Andrew Tate told reporters as he left the Florida airport on Thursday, saying he and his brother were totally innocent and the victims of lies.

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He did not respond to reporters who asked why the brothers had come to Florida, or whether US President Donald Trump had helped get their travel ban lifted.

On Thursday Trump said he knows nothing about the Tate case and Romania.

Tate, who gained millions of online fans by promoting an ultra-masculine lifestyle that critics say denigrates women, planned to return to Romania at the end of March to fulfill a judicial control obligation, a source told Reuters.

Referring to the charges against Tate, Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis told reporters that his state was “not a place where you’re welcome with that type of conduct,” and that the Florida attorney general was looking at what jurisdiction the state had to “deal with this.”

Andrew Tate’s online instructional videos direct men to, among other things, physically assault women who accuse them of cheating, according to extremism-tracking group the Anti-Defamation League.

“It’s bang out the machete, boom in her face, you grip her up by the neck,” Tate says in one video.

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