While the White House is under duress today with a vote imminent by the House of Representatives to end the protection of sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, news breaks today that confirms the White House ordered protection of another notorious sex trafficker, Andrew Tate.
Andrew Tate is one of the most prominent members of the so-called manosphere, a collection of influencers, podcasters and content creators who helped deliver young male voters to Trump.
ProPublica released a report that shows a White House official, Paul Ingrassia, intervened in February when the Tate brothers arrived in Florida and had their electronic devices seized by Customs and Border officials.
Ingrassia directed DHS officials by written request to return the devices, chiding them as a wasting resources and time. Ingrassia insisted the request was coming from the White House.
The Tate brothers, Andrew and Tristan, were facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries when they left their home in Romania to visit the United States, arriving by private plane to Fort Lauderdale.
According to interviews and screenshots of communications, DHS officials were disgusted and outraged at the request, seeing it as interference in a federal investigation.
One anonymous DHS official was taken aback at the “brazenness and the high-handed expectation of complicity.”
In recent years, Ingrassia worked on the legal team for Andrew Tate, the “manosphere” influencer and self-described “misogynist”, who has faced allegations of rape and human trafficking in both the United Kingdom and Romania — charges Tate denies. According to the Anti-Defamation League, Tate has also promoted “Holocaust revisionism” and antisemitism, and uses “Jew” as an insult on social media.
Ingrassia has not only assisted in Tate’s legal defense, but also praised him as an “extraordinary man” and “the embodiment of the ancient ideal of excellence,” who has been unjustly targeted by “the global elites.”
Here’s a recent example of Andrew Tate’s attitude:
