Thread by @realtoriabrooke

THREAD — Andrew Tate: Conservative "Trad" Influencer or Jeffrey Epstein 2.0?

Collaboration with @MacGyver1777

"40% of the reason I moved to Romania was because rape laws are more lenient there. I’m not a f****** rapist, but I like the idea of just being able to do what I want."… https://t.co/aFCu9GhI7ytwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Tate has said he moved to Romania in 2017, at least in part to avoid potential criminal charges for his actions "Romania remains a primary source country for sex trafficking and labor trafficking victims in Europe," according to the U.S. State Department, in its 2023 report on… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

On June 21, 2023, self-described self-help, sex, and business "guru" and kickboxer Andrew Tate was charged with continued sex trafficking charges. His brother @TatetheTalisman as well as two females were also charged, including his personal assistant Georgiana Naghel and a woman… https://t.co/1UBa5z86G5twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@TateTheTalisman Contrary to Andrew’s claims of Luana being a complete stranger, Georgiana Naghel @naghelgeorgiana and Luana Radu are known as "Tate’s Angels."

Radu goes by @Ellie_Dely on social media, with over 300,000 followers on Instagram, where she is seen posing with Tate’s infamous… https://t.co/LN8LVx6N9atwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@TateTheTalisman @naghelgeorgiana @Ellie_Dely Georgiana Naghel is an American citizen, born in Romania, and is believed to have first met Andrew Tate in 2017. Also an influencer, she is speculated to be Andrew Tate’s current girlfriend.

@TateTheTalisman @naghelgeorgiana @Ellie_Dely Per the BBC, "The indictment deposited with the Bucharest court says that the four defendants formed an organized criminal group in 2021 to commit human trafficking in Romania, but also in other countries including the US and the UK.

It names seven alleged victims who it says… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@TateTheTalisman @naghelgeorgiana @Ellie_Dely Romanian authorities allege Naghel and Radu regularly threatened the women living in the Tate house with violence if they did not regularly produce sexually explicit content for them. Naghel and Radu are currently under house arrest.

@TateTheTalisman @naghelgeorgiana @Ellie_Dely "According to prosecutors, Naghel and Radu allegedly acted as enforcers, fining women for showing up late to shoots or for falling short of TikTok quotas, and threatening to beat them up if they didn’t comply. They also threatened to — and did, on at least one occasion, per court… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@TateTheTalisman @naghelgeorgiana @Ellie_Dely The alleged victims were later taken to buildings in Ilfov county in Romania where they were intimidated, placed under constant surveillance and control and forced into debt, according to Romanian prosecutors.

The defendants allegedly then forced the women to take part in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@TateTheTalisman @naghelgeorgiana @Ellie_Dely There are also separate charges still under investigation which could lead to a separate indictment, including money laundering and trafficking of minors.

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@TateTheTalisman @naghelgeorgiana @Ellie_Dely "Were the female supporters he surrounded himself with wooed by the charms he’s been selling to his followers — or are they victims of the "loverboy method," the term used by prosecutors to describe how Tate and his brother allegedly lured vulnerable women to Romania? (The Tates… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The act of recruitment by means of deception for the purpose of sexual exploitation is legally classified as human trafficking. The 'Loverboy' method of trafficking is when Romeo-style pimps operate by making young girls or boys fall in love with them, often manipulating them in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Attached are screenshots that were still present on their website until late January after the Tate brothers’ arrests.

In 2018, Tate launched the PhD (Pimping Hoes’ Degree) program, a $450 video course that allegedly instructed men on how to attract women. The following is a clip from Andrew Tate’s PHD course where he explains the importance of having a "Bottom b*tch" to convince and lure women… https://t.co/jLL9Oq0kc0twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

In 2018, Tate launched the PhD (Pimping Hoes’ Degree) program, a $450 video course that allegedly instructed men on how to attract women. The following is a clip from Andrew Tate’s PHD course where he explains the importance of having a "Bottom b*tch" to convince and lure women… https://t.co/Nimc2CFGJjtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

[CONTINUED] @Cobratate says, "You cannot get a girl to work for you who you haven’t f*****." The PHD course is my recruitment system. I don’t mention web cam until after I’ve had sex with the girl. . . You want a girl who’s in it [because] she wants to be with you."

@Cobratate [CONTINUED] ANDREW TATE: "Traveling is great to entice them with because the great thing about this business is it’s mobile." He then says to the prospect girl, "Come let’s have a meeting and talk about the web cam business properly. I’ll bring one of the girls who works for me.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate Tate says, "My "First Girl" was so good it was easy, she was like "Before this I was a waitress, it was sh**. Now I do this and I make so much money and the guys all love me, they adore me. . . We’re going to Thailand soon it’s going to be so much fun, you should come with us.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate In a @VICENews interview, Tate was asked about whether he employed the lover boy method, to which he responded: "I would consider the webcam industry more psychology than sex."

The interview said, "One of the concerns people have about is that that’s a form of grooming—"

@Cobratate @VICENews Tate cuts him off, stumbling: "Let me correct you because I’m a professional. I have to change what you just said." And stated there’s not a single female right now complaining about "getting rich." Tate would not let VICE speak to the women who work for him.

@Cobratate @VICENews "In court documents, they say the Tate brothers forced women to make adult content on OnlyFans for them, while also posting on social media for 12 hours a day with little more than a five-minute break. According to one source close to the Tates, the women would be pitted against… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews "To some degree, the decision made financial sense: Bucharest, where the brothers set up shop, is considered the epicenter of the camming industry, due to the relatively low rent, the high youth-unemployment rate, and its preponderance of broke young women. And the brothers had… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews Tate fans ask, why would the brothers be lying about the acts they’re being accused of? Answer: To protect their multi-million dollar business, the Tate brand, and to recruit more people who will protest once they have been charged. If their income dries up, their expensive legal… https://t.co/CVKB1Vosfmtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews "Wiretapped conversations from jail appear to show Andrew Tate passing instructions to women in his circle — some of whom are classified as victims by the Romanian prosecution — to speak out on his behalf." @RollingStone

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone "To control the victims, prosecutors allege, Tate and other defendants used intimidation and constant surveillance, along with conjuring alleged debts the women were to repay. In one instance from October 2021, they illegally accessed a woman's social media accounts to post… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone It’s worth noting that on February 12, 2023, former Tate girlfriend and NSFW/OnlyFans star dubbed as a "pedophile baiter," Diana Deet, otherwise known as "Coconut Kitty" recently passed away "by suicide."'

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@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone Verified by the @nypost 3 years ago, Tate contacted then-16-year old Daria Gușă on Instagram, the daughter of well-known Romanian politician and journalist Cozmin Gușă with a strawberry emoji. She was perplexed as she only had a few hundreds followers versus Tate’s several… https://t.co/JjEQpyApxbtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost The strawberry emoji can be used to infer sexual interest or a person who has been prostituted after being addicted to a substance.

Ironically, Luana Radu who goes by Ellie Dely, the Tate angel who Andrew claims "he only met once," posted photos of strawberries days before the… https://t.co/4tKzKz1qvitwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Per the San Diego Union-Tribune, research shows that the most prominent emoji indicators of trafficking are the rose, rosette, cherry, cherry blossom, growing heart, airplane, and crown. The growing heart and cherry, for instance, highlight that the victim being trafficked is a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost TATE’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER, WHO HE CLAIMS WAS CIA:

Tate was born on December 1, 1986, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. to a father who has been cited as CIA and a mother who was a "dish lady."

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Tate credits his parents’ dynamic as his basis for his views on male-female relationships and interactions. In a post from June 29, 2023, Tate said: "My dad was a chess genius CIA operative. My mother a dinner lady. They had absolutely 0 in common. His dad allegedly said: "She… https://t.co/e5G3IpV3XMtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Despite his claims that his parents' relationship served as an ideal role model for "traditional gender roles," his parents divorced when Tate was 10 years old, and his mother found herself in a homeless shelter with her children for a year until they could find public housing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Andrew Tate's mother reportedly dislikes his "misogynistic rants" because she "didn’t raise him that way." .tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehack…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost According to Andrew Tate, his father cheated on his mother, which he had no problem with, even adding he "later understood his father" that cheating doesn’t matter.

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost How Emory Tate’s values influenced his sons:

Andrew’s younger brother, Tristan, said, "If I ever told a girl I love her and have feelings for her and want a family with her, I’m telling the truth. But the moment she leaves my house, let’s call another girl over. . . When I spend… https://t.co/mQSjgy8B20twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Tristan continues in the video: "That love you get with a girl who is new to sex and is so in love with you, I’ll fall in love with her right back. I’ll still f*** other girls, but I’ll fall in love with her right back. . . When I had a shoulder surgery, every 3 days I just… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost One might ask—are Tristan’s love interests actually consensual?

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Despite allegedly being CIA, Emory Tate was accused of exaggerating military intelligence because he suffered from a mental problem. He left the Air Force on good terms but avoided talking about it. Emory was discharged after being diagnosed with Narcissistic Disorder. Andrew… https://t.co/8BWL9T61R9twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost What are the characteristics of Narcissistic Personality Disorder? It’s defined as: "A disorder in which a person has an inflated sense of self-importance.

Narcissistic personality disorder is found more commonly in men. The cause is unknown but likely involves a combination of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost The 4 stages of narcissistic abuse cycle: Idealization, Devaluation, Repetition, and Discard. A narcissistic partner may love-bomb you, devalue your sense of self over time, repeat pattern, and eventually, discard you and/or the relationship.

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@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Tate described how his father locked him in his bedroom in the dark because he wanted a night light and he screamed and cried all night.

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost In September 2017, Tate was criticized by mental health charities for saying depression "isn’t real". @RollingStone

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost One user on Reddit wrote: "Isn't it a bit suspicious to anyone else that the son of a CIA agent (Andrew Tate) who claims to be fighting "The Matrix" by awakening people and making them rich is appearing all over the internet all of the sudden?

If you look up Andre Tate's talking… https://t.co/ZwLAL5OFUttwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Styled as a self-help guru, offering his mostly male fans a recipe for making money, pulling girls and "escaping the matrix," Tate has gone in a matter of months from near obscurity to one of the most talked about people in the world.

In July of 2022, there were more Google… https://t.co/cGs7kk6Ko2twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost "Tate’s surge to fame was not by chance. Evidence obtained by the Observer shows that followers of Tate are being told to flood social media with videos of him, choosing the most controversial clips in order to achieve maximum views and engagement.
The coordinated effort,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost In less than three months, the strategy has earned him a huge following online and potentially made him millions of pounds, with 127,000 members now paying the £39 a month to join Hustler’s University community, many of them men and boys from the UK and US.

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Yet despite much of the content appearing to break TikTok’s rules, which explicitly ban misogyny and copycat accounts, the platform appears to have done little to limit Tate’s spread or ban the accounts responsible. Instead, it has propelled him into the mainstream – allowing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Another report on Hustlers University reads; "In 2021, Tate founded Hustlers University, the so-called educational platform. There, according to Hustlers University promotional materials, he amassed more than 168,000 students, which, at $49.99 per month, would have earned him $8… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Andrew Tate has touted a portrayal of "traditional values" coupled with key phrases like "matrix," and "fake news" to infiltrate the political right wing. Tate leveraged his connection to Tommy Robinson, as well as befriending YouTuber and former InfoWars editor-at-large Paul… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost Tate’s carefully crafted conservative circle has insulated him against any attacks criticizing his moves.

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost On December 14, 2019, Alex Jones approached @joerogan advocating to have Andrew Tate on The Joe Rogan Experience, to which he did not receive the desired response.

Alex Jones appeared to block the reporter who reached out for comment.

When Joe Rogan and @stoolpresidente of… https://t.co/MiqccpNxgwtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost @joerogan @stoolpresidente On Tate’s personal views: he says women belong in the home, can’t drive, and are a man’s property. He also thinks rape victims must "bear responsibility" for their attacks and dates women aged 18–19 because he can "make an imprint" on them, according to videos posted online.

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost @joerogan @stoolpresidente In other clips, he talks about hitting and choking women, trashing their belongings and stopping them from going out.

“It’s bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck. Shut up b****,” he says in one video, acting out how he’d attack a woman if she accused… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost @joerogan @stoolpresidente It’s worth noting that Andrew Tate was allegedly raised Christian, later became an atheist, and identified as a Christian again before converting to Islam in 2022. Tate posted quotes from the Quran during his time behind bars in December of 2022.

@Cobratate @VICENews @RollingStone @nypost @joerogan @stoolpresidente It’s widely recognized that Islam culture views women as property, and it is found to be common practice in the culture that there are honor killings and frequent incest cases wherein fathers will impregnate their daughters.

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