Posted on 02/27/2025 9:53:21 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis drew a sharp turn away from the Trump administration Thursday by announcing that controversial online figures Andrew Tate and his brother Tristen are not welcome in Florida. A spokesperson said the brothers landed in Fort Lauderdale earlier on Thursday.
DeSantis’s comments come in stark contrast to the Trump administration’s position after reports surfaced that the decision to let the brothers leave Romania was a result of President Donald Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell who raised their case during a hallway exchange with Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu at the Munich Security Conference earlier this month.
As news broke, conservatives highlighted the Trump administration’s alleged involvement and warned against embracing the brothers.
“We have no involvement in that,” DeSantis said during a press conference. “I read about it through the media. Clearly, the federal government has jurisdiction. Whether they want to rebuff his entry into the United States, and I have confidence that — whether it’s Pam Bondi or Kristi Noem — that they will be looking at that.”
“I do know our attorney general, James Uthmeier, is looking at what state and jurisdiction we may have to be able to deal with this. But the reality is, is no, Florida is not a place where we’re where you’re welcome with that with us — that type of conduct. I’m in the air, and I don’t know how it came to this. We were not involved. We were not notified. I found out through the media that this was something that was happening.“
AP provided context on the Tate’s controversial arrival in the United States, reporting:
The Tates — who are dual U.S.-British citizens and have millions of online followers — were arrested in late 2022 and formally indicted last year on charges they participated in a criminal ring that lured women to Romania, where they were sexually exploited. Andrew Tate was also charged with rape. They deny the allegations.
In December, a court ruled that the case couldn’t go to trial because of multiple legal and procedural irregularities on the part of the prosecutors. The case, however, remained open, and there is also another ongoing investigation against them in Romania.
Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, said in a statement Thursday that prosecutors approved a request to change the travel restrictions on the Tates, but didn’t say who made the request.
Saying they’re not welcome in Florida, hardly sounds like dictator speak to me.
He can express his opinion, just like the rest of us. I don’t see anything threatening in what he said.
The correct answer:
“There are many undesirable people who visit Florida. That includes reporters whose media outlets were on the payroll of USAID—using taxpayer funds to propagandize against the American people.”
Or maybe he find the conduct of the Tate brothers deserving of censure. DeSantis was quite clear the decision to allow them in the U.S. was a federal one. That does not mean DeSantis must remain silent on whether the state of Florida should welcome them too.
Oh and has everyone here forgotten Tate converted to Islam?
Tate guys are SCUM and ANTISEMITES!!!!!!!!!
huh? if i can still read this isn’t about a ‘welcome’ to FL for average tourists or migrants. these guys are involved in sex slavery. from the blurb you posted:
‘Florida is not a place where we’re where you’re welcome with that with us — that type of conduct.’
yeah. i’m with DeSantis, keep that out of FL. hell keep that out of America.
Tate is scum, but sadly it’s not my governor’s call. It looks like DC pulled the strings to spring him, and once he’s here there is no recourse by state or local officials. I’m sure that there will be sightings of this lowlife on South Beach.
“Who else has Ron made similar comments about?
Any hard core Muslim revolutionaries?
How about treasonous former Biden officials?
Selective virtue signaling just makes anyone out to be a fool.”
I am forced to agree. But I suppose it is possible that there are other factors that we are unaware of re: this issue.
you don’t have much of an imagination, do you FRiend?
in my day we had an easy solution for this kind of ‘problem’ in town. it was simply to inform the individual through law enforcement that ‘i have my eyes on you.’ or ‘i’ll be on you like white on rice.’ generally that took care of the matter. the individual or individuals get the message and move on.
last time i checked, the gov. of FL is the chief executive of that and in charge of all state troopers.
Sad, sad, sad, that you conflate Ron DeSantis with Dan Abrams.
Here are some more people whose names are not Dan Abrams:
“America does not need more self-proclaimed pimps and terror supporters with outstanding criminal allegations of sex trafficking and a ‘history of pornographic distribution, plus a grift ‘university” that suckers young men out of thousands of dollars.”......Ben Shapiro
“The Trump administration got Andrew Tate and his brother released. This really feels like a moral watershed. Everything else MAGA does has some kind of twisted moral logic that maybe you can see if you squint really hard. This time it’s just ‘we love pimping.’ If they were run…”.....Richard Hanania
“The way conservatives and conservative organizations respond to Andrew Tate arriving on US soil will tell you everything you need to know about them. Any organization or host who embraces him is engaged in far worse than simple grift, though it is that. Andrew Tate is the enemy…”....Jeremy Boreing
“MAGA influencers are mad at DeSantis because he is speaking out against Andrew Tate,” Chronicles Magazine columnist Pedro L. Gonzalez posted on X. “It takes you five seconds to find stories about how he approached teen girls and brags about breaking the jaws of women. It is impossible to hate these people enough.”
“Don’t get me wrong, but if these brothers are free U.S. citizens, then Desantis is acting woke and should keep out of it! He is just pissed that President Trump is not endorsing his wife as next governor.”
The next governor of Florida should be Byron Donalds, IMHO. I like what DeSantis has done in Florida, but hell to the no re: his wife being gov.
Benny Johnson, Tucker Carlson, and Alina Habba forever disgraced themselves for trying to normalize this filth.
Yeah it’s so woke to actually not side with the degenerate pimp and human trafficker in this situation
I don’t know what state you live in, but in Florida I doubt very much that the governor has the authority to sic troopers on citizens.
But you do you
There is a long list of very bad actors out there.
Integrity is when you treat them all equally—and don’t just pick on “politically safe” targets.
It is an undeniable fact that for certain parts of the MAGA movement these Tate Bros, the filthy Muzzy degenerates that they are, have been treated as heroes.
Thank God DeSantis used his platform to forcefully reject that idiocy
watch not sic.
To be totally honest I never even heard of the Tate folks until this thread.
Can you imagine the violation-of-civil liberties field day lawyers would have if governors or mayors told cops to shadow citizens?
lol. you don’t seem to know much about how criminal justice works. let’s just let the criminals run wild then shall we? have a good day.
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