As noted by Pengelly, Andrew Tate bragged about having “access to the president’s son” in 2016 after a visit to Trump Tower and taking a photograph with Trump, then president-elect. The Tates’ lawyer, McBride, was “a friend of Trump Jr. too,” Pengelly wrote, with Trump Jr. defending the Tates in public after their 2022 arrest.
Andrew Tate also joined Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, on a video call in 2024, and
that year that he was “very close with the Trump family.”
“The Tates are due in federal court in Miami next week. Surely – surely – Democrats must now realize that voters need to know more about the web of ties between these accused rapists and traffickers and the president’s family,” Pengelly wrote.
“To reach for the obvious comparison, imagine if Joe Biden was still in office and his son, Hunter, was revealed to be close to two men accused of sexual assault and trafficking. Would the GOP hold back? To use the terminology of another Anglo import now leaving U.S. shores – the World Cup – it’s a glaring open goal.”