The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation

I am surprised zero.

I feel like I even had predicted that this was probable...just don't wanna take the time to necro the thread

What creates a potential "muddying of the waters" is the past documented corruption of the Romanian government itself (and DIICOT in particular)

In a perfect world, various nations all have reputable governance, and their various special agencies (like anti-Organized crime task forces) have credibility.

Often times that information-sharing is used as a basis for how people arriving in another country are handed by that country's customs/border officials.

For example. If a foreign national is arriving in the US from Canada, and Canada's data system shows that the person is on the watchlist and credibly suspected of being a hacker/cyberterrorist, I'd feel pretty confident in that assessment coming from a country like Canada, and it would be completely warranted and reasonable for CBP to seize certain tech devices from them at the border based on Canada's word of "Hey, watch out for this guy"

I don't have the same confidence in Eastern European governments. They're still arguably some of the most corrupt governments on the planet.

With DIICOT in particular, there is past corruption documented involving shenanigans such as (but probably not limited to)
1) Going after journalists who are publishing unflattering things about the "in-power party" on trumped up charges
2) Targeting wealthy people with trumped up charges, and then offering to make those charges go away in exchange for certain "financial arrangements"
3) Going after certain "local powers" at the behest of other "local powers" (in exchange for financial arrangements one would assume)


So while it's completely plausible that Andrew Tate did all of the things DIICOT has alleged...

It's also still plausible that DIICOT targeted him the same way that occurred in this story:

The actual director of DIICOT was engaging in those kinds of shakedown tactics, so there's no reason to believe that the rank-in-file and mid-level people in that organization wouldn't be prone to doing the same type of thing.

Corrupt governments protect their monied interests.

Why would they protext a suspected human trafficker?

You are "Welcome to be skeptical of Eastern European governments" but if you are familiar with Andrew Tates ethos, human trafficking is essentially something he encourages. To be "Skeptical of the charges against tate" because the government may not be awesome, really means little.


Also, it bears little relevance to the topic of this thread.

I mean the Tate brother's old lawyer now works for the White House...
And you're worried about random corruption in Romania; implying it happenned with Tate?

rambot said:

Corrupt governments protect their monied interests.

Why would they protext a suspected human trafficker?

You are "Welcome to be skeptical of Eastern European governments" but if you are familiar with Andrew Tates ethos, human trafficking is essentially something he encourages. To be "Skeptical of the charges against tate" because the government may not be awesome, really means little.


Also, it bears little relevance to the topic of this thread.

I mean the Tate brother's old lawyer now works for the White House...
And you're worried about random corruption in Romania; implying it happenned with Tate?

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He's still technically a dual citizen (of the US and Great Britain)

I don't like the precedent of "Let's restrict the rights of American citizens and seize property via CBP" based on the word of a corrupt agency in a corrupt country.


Obviously you're a Canadian citizen...

If you'd made some sort of trip to the US for vacation. temporary residency for work, etc... While you're here, participated in some sort of left-leaning protest, or did something else that made some right-leaning enemies while you were here.

When you went to go back to Canada, Canadian customs agents scanned your passport, and found that Trump DOJ has designated you as a potential extremist, and as a result, the customs agents took your phone and laptop so they could go digging around on them.

You comfortable with that arrangement?

Or are you of the mindset that your rights within your own country and entering your own border shouldn't be dictated by the "word" of (what I presume you'd classify as) a corrupt executive branch in another country?

Now, whatever you feel the level of corruption is that exists in the Trump DOJ that would give you concerns with that arrangement...multiply that be a significant factor, and that would explain the concerns with the Romanian agency in question.