Police Raid MAGA 'King of Toxic Masculinity' in Human-Trafficking Investigation

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Will Sommer
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Kickboxer Andrew Tate was welcomed into DC's pro-Trump inner circle, hanging out with the likes of Jack Posobiec and Ali Alexander at the Trump hotel. But in Romania, police recently raided Tate's home as part of a human-trafficking investigation.

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Police Raid MAGA ‘King of Toxic Masculinity’ in Human-Trafficking Investigation
The raid was prompted by reports that an American woman had been abducted.
8:55 AM · Apr 22, 2022

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Romanian police raided the home of prominent pro-Trump online personality Andrew Tate this month as part of a human-trafficking investigation, bringing new attention to Tate’s ties to leading figures in the American MAGA movement.

Before the April 11 raid, Tate was best known as a kickboxer and vocal Trump supporter in the online far right. On social media, Tate portrayed himself as a wealthy cigar-smoking playboy, prompting one admirer to dub him the “king of toxic masculinity.”

But Tate’s treatment of women had an ugly side. In 2016, he was booted off the British version of Big Brother over a video of him hitting a woman with a belt. This March, Britain’s Daily Mirror tabloid profiled him and his brother Tristan Tate and their Romania-based business which used webcam models to trick men into sending the brothers tens of thousands of dollars. In one video on his YouTube channel, Andrew Tate said “40 percent” of the reason he moved to Romania was because Romanian police were less likely to pursue sexual assault allegations.

Tate’s unsavory activities didn’t stop him from building links with the stars of the Trumpian right. In 2019, Tate palled around Washington, D.C. with prominent online Trump activists and conspiracy theorists. He shared a meal with far-right cable news commentator Jack Posobiec and Infowars host Paul Joseph Watkins, and appeared multiple times on Infowars shows.

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[MagickMuffin]

1. QANON here's the child sex trafficking pedophiles

You need to do a better job.

Try to keep up!

[orwell]

2. So wouldn't it be easier...

...if we all just try to find the MAGAT's that aren't pedos, traffickers, perverts, sexual assaulters, or mysoginists?

[smirkymonkey]

3. Scum attracts scum.

[rockfordfile]

4. white trash pos