Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in Romania.
In fact the residents has been rated, and
we are learning more as the story develops.
So in the coming days I'm sure we're gonna have more details about this.
But they have been accused of trafficking women,
holding them captive against their will and the investigation continues.
Apparently, the authorities were investigating the Tate's because they have
been allegedly trafficking multiple women.
According to reports the investigation first began when the US Embassy
in Romania got a tip in April that the Tate's were holding
a US citizen at their home against her will.
The authorities searched the Tate's home and
have found that women there as well as another woman who was trafficked.
So the woman who they initially found out about was in fact there and
there was an additional woman there who alleges that she was also trafficked.
Now I'm gonna read you from a translated statement or
translated report, I should say from Romania.
It's based on Google Translate, so it might be a little cumbersome.
But nonetheless, this is what we know based on local reports from Romania.
The police say that the injured persons were allegedly recruited by brothers
Andrew and Tristan Tate who misled them that they wanted a marriage/cohabitation
relationship and that they had real feelings of love for them.
The women were allegedly later transported and
housed in buildings through acts of physical violence and mental coercion,
intimidation, constant surveillance, control of basically
just control of them and where they go whether they can leave or not.
They were sexually exploited by the group's members by forcing them to
perform pornographic acts in order to produce and disseminate.
So they were filming them in pornographic acts in order to sell, I guess,
that's what the allegation is here.
Through social media platforms, materials having such a character and
by submitting to the execution of a work in a forced manner.
So basically, the women in question are alleging that they've been trafficked
by the Tate brothers and that's what this investigation is about.
Now why is it that they're only being investigated today?
Similar accusations have been floating around for quite some time now.
And it turns out that when Andrew Tate decided to go after Greta Thunberg,
he ended up telling on himself,
authorities were waiting to see if they could find his exact location.
They didn't know whether he was actually in Romania or not.
So let's take a look at this tweet from Alejandro Caballero who says or Caraballo
who says Romanian authorities needed proof that Andrew Tate was in the country.
So they reportedly used his social media post his ridiculous video yesterday
featured a pizza from a Romanian pizza chain Jerry's pizza confirming he was in
fact in the country.
This is absolutely epic, and I totally agree with her take there, Cenk.
>> So this is amazing.
Look, Tate's a douche and that is acknowledged by nearly everyone
except his fans and actually his fans like him for being a douche.
So even they acknowledge it, but you're allowed to be one.
And so he runs this cheesy webcam business, feels exploitive.
I get it if you hate him for it, but you're allowed to run a webcam business.
He has said that women who get raped,
that they're partly responsible for, he just can't be a worse guy.
It's just the most awful guy you've ever heard of, all right?
But that's not illegal, but holding women against their will is definitely illegal.
>> All right.
>> And bringing them in from other countries on false promises and
then kidnapping them and forcing them into sex work is about as illegal as it gets.
That's sex trafficking, human trafficking.
And this dude is rightfully in a world of trouble.
>> Yeah, and in regard to his webcam business there are allegations some of
the women at least have been forced to perform in those webcam performances,
and obviously they're pornographic in nature.
So I'm guessing the report that I read from earlier was referring to that.
I also wanted to talk a little more about that scam webcam business.
So according to a report by The Mirror earlier this year, Callous Tristan and
Andrew Tate admit their business is a total scam, but
say the authorities cannot stop them.
They claim to run a studio where 75 lingerie clad models take
calls from fans paying $4 a minute.
Punters can ask for private shows and pay for tips at their own risk.
Some women will claim that they have crippling university debt,
a family member in need of private health care or a dream of moving to the UK.
Sometimes even telling men they want to meet them.
And it turns out that some, if not all of the women involved were doing so
again against their will.
So I have some more details about this, again translated from local reports out of
Romania, but I wanted to get some more of your thoughts, Cenk.
I mean, look, this is why it's so important for progressives and
broadly speaking, the left to offer an alternative to
all of these grifters who reach out to disillusioned,
discouraged young men who might feel alienated who might feel lonely.
Because if we don't do it, people like Andrew Tate and to a lesser degree,
Jordan Peterson, I mean, I think Jordan Peterson is a little crazy,
but I don't think he's a criminal.
They're the ones who offer support to these guys, and we don't want that.
That's a really bad idea.
>> Yeah, look, I'm gonna tell you something super depressing about that.
My kids are 10 and 12, and they've heard of Tate.
>> My God. >> And so the fact that it's filtering
down, even kids like that is gross and tons of right-wingers and
young boys who just haven't been around enough, one of our members wrote.
And I agree with them like, hey, this is indoctrinating people
into believing in old stupid things that they used to teach us, all right?
And that sucks and we thought we were past.
But no, they're bringing back all these awful ideas.
And my kids do partly know him as the guy who got clowned by their cousin,
Hassan Abby.
Who care?
But that's not why they knew or heard about him.
They heard about him because through the great line of the short videos, etc.
So my point there is it is a toxic poison that is spreading in
the culture that a guy this despicable has tons and tons of fans and
viewers and people fighting, they like him online.
And that's discouraging for sure.
Although, Greta Thunberg also set them straight.
And by the way, I don't know if you've got this one Anna but
the scam that they run how they lure them into Romania.
>> Mm-hm. >> My God, it's disgusting.
>> Yeah, so let me again reach to you from a report that was translated from Romania.
The Romanian authorities learned that the Tate's had a video chat studio,
which operated in a building located approximately 500 meters from their villa.
Now several young women were found there.
The young women from America stated, or the young woman I should say from
America stated that she met Tristan Tate through a social network, and
he seduced her and convinced her to buy a plane ticket and come to Romania.
She allegedly abandoned her boyfriend and came to live with the British millionaire
but found herself threatened and forced to work as a video chat model.
Frightened, she contacted her ex-boyfriend who in turn notified the US Embassy in
Bucharest.
So that is how the tip came about.
It had to do with an American citizen who traveled there under false pretenses.
She was lied to.
A former policewoman was allegedly in league with the Tate's and
was also arrested.
She is accused of in addition to working side by side with the rest of the models
putting pressure on the girls held in the studio against their will.
So for all the young men out there who look up to Tate and
think that he's super cool.
Just understand that when he's in those videos surrounded by women,
it's very likely that those women are there by force.
So there's nothing cool about that.
There's nothing desirable about a guy like Andrew Tate.
He's unattractive, physically, mentally emotionally he's a bad guy,
and you shouldn't be looking up to him, you shouldn't be inspired by him.
He is very likely a criminal and someone who preys on vulnerable women.
>> Yeah, and look, no one looks great in this story and the way that they got that
particular woman to go to Romania doesn't speak well of anyone, including her.
But just because somebody left their boyfriend to go pursue a rich guy
doesn't mean you get to kidnap them and force them into sex work.
That's insane and deeply criminal.
I have to say things like that, because I guarantee you there are guys
out there right now saying, sure to come and, no,
nobody has kidnapping and sex trafficking coming to them.
That's insane.
I can't believe we live in a society where I have to clarify that, by the way,
get a load of course, of the irony of the right wing,
who claimed that they're so against human trafficking,
largely supporting Tate throughout his entire career.
And then by the way- >> It's okay when they do it, Cenk.
>> Yeah, of course, and the person fighting against him,
of course we have as Greta Thunberg recently has.
Somebody wrote it out, Sue J Lizzie Bennet said, ever since Tate tweeted at
Greta Thunberg, he's been getting a series of L's lately, keep them coming.
Yeah, I guess he asked around, and he found out.