The Tates Should Remain In Jail During Extradition Proceedings, Prosecutors Argue
Federal prosecutors said controversial “manosphere” influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate should remain in jail while their extradition proceeding plays out, citing the brothers’ own social media posts as evidence they are flight risks and a danger to the community.
Prosecutors argued in a Monday filing a Miami federal court should order the Tate brothers to remain in custody while they face an extradition proceeding, which could see them returned to the United Kingdom for prosecution on dozens of new charges including rape, human trafficking and assault.
Prosecutors said the Tates are flight risks because they have said as much themselves in social media posts, citing plenty of examples of the brothers boasting about having multiple passports under pseudonyms.
The filing cites a video in which Andrew Tate says he has “seven passports” and “15 driver’s licenses,” adding if he is stopped by the police, he will “pull out a license from some random country” to hide his real identity.
Tate also mocked the British government’s probe into himself and his brother on social media, calling the United Kingdom “a joke” and “total clowns” in a post on X while also saying in a video he is “never getting extradited” and taunted the U.K. government to “come get” him.
Prosecutors cited numerous posts, made by Tate’s former X account that is no longer available but were detailed in a letter to prosecutors by British authorities, in which he said multiple times he is “above the law.”
“The Court need not look much further than the TATES’ own social media posts to understand the great lengths they have gone to avoid detection by government,” prosecutors said.
Andrew Tate’s X account has made daily posts complaining about the allegedly harsh conditions he is facing in the special housing unit, or solitary confinement, but prosecutors rebuffed many of his claims in Monday’s filing. Tate most recently posted on Aug. 10 that he gets “no commissary, no phone calls, no yard time” in the special housing unit, claiming he is facing the “worst possible conditions the US gov provides to terrorists and psychopaths.” But prosecutors said the Tates are actually provided “adequate sleeping arrangements; food and access to water; the ability to order and obtain basic and extra supplies; recreation time; the opportunity to receive social visits; access to phone calls; and the opportunity to visit with their attorneys, often twice a day.” Prosecutors included receipts of Andrew and Tristan Tate’s commissary orders, dated Aug. 5, which show the brothers ordered more than a dozen items each, including Doritos, ramen, coffee, candy and deodorant. The filing also says the Tates are “consistently allowed out of their cells for hours (on almost a daily basis) for recreation time and to hold joint meetings with their attorneys.” The Tates’ attorney, Joe McBride, previously told the New York Post that Andrew Tate is not posting himself while in jail, saying his legal team records his thoughts when they meet with him and post on his behalf.
Prosecutors also hinged their argument that the Tates should remain jailed during their extradition proceedings on their charges, which accuse them of dozens of alleged violent offenses. The Tates, who have faced charges in the United Kingdom and Romania and investigations in the United States, faced heightened legal trouble starting last month when British prosecutors announced a slew of new charges—32 for Andrew and six for Tristan—adding to the 21 combined U.K. charges the brothers already face. Among Andrew Tate’s new charges are seven counts of rape, three counts of human trafficking, three counts of assault and 19 charges related to child and extreme pornography, while Tristan Tate faces new charges of one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three trafficking counts. Romanian authorities have also accused the Tates of organized crime and human trafficking, including trafficking of minors, concerning 46 victims between 2014 and 2022, according to the U.S. prosecutors’ Monday filing.
The White House previously declined to intervene in the Tates’ extradition process. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, responding to a reporter who asked in July whether the White House would get involved, said, “No. We’ve already answered that question.” Members of the Trump family have previously backed the Tates, including Donald Trump Jr., who called their Romanian charges “absolute insanity" href="https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1663794412428619778?s=20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">absolute insanity” in 2023, and Barron Trump, whom the New York Times reported spoke with Andrew Tate in 2024 as President Donald Trump sought to win over younger male voters. Extradition requests must be approved by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who declined to weigh in on the Tates’ case when asked by reporters last month, saying there’s “no role for us to play at this moment.”