In episode 14 of his newest production, “Tucker on Twitter,” former Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson sat down with influencer Andrew Tate’s younger brother, Tristan Tate.
The Tate brothers were released from house arrest on Friday after initially being arrested in Bucharest, Hungary, in December 2022. The brothers face an indictment that alleges they and two female associates formed an organized criminal gang in 2021 to facilitate human trafficking.
During his interview with Carlson, Andrew Tate defended the two women charged in the alleged criminal gang, saying that they were imprisoned for simply knowing the Tate brothers.
He further went on to say that the two women were allegedly “psychologically tortured” by Romanian officials in order to turn them into “prosecution witnesses” to lie about crimes committed by the Tate brothers.
“And essentially, when I look at the way these two women were treated, they were locked in prison because they know us – one is my personal assistant, so she knows everything I do. She does airport pickups, pays my electricity bills. And every week or so they had the keys of freedom dangle in front of them, ‘ready to tell us about Tate’s criminal activities now?’ And they said no, stayed in prison. Next week, ‘you ready to tell us about the criminal activities of the Tate brothers’?”
“And the problem is, they can’t have told the police about criminal activity I take part in because those criminal activities don’t exist,” Tate continued. “So I see it as a method of psychological torture,” Tate added.
“I’m not mad that I was sent to jail. Any notion of being angry at injustice and stuff that I truly have in my soul is for those two girls who went to jail with me because they didn’t deserve it… These are two wonderful people. And they were sent to prison with me – one for having the crime of being my personal assistant and one for the crime of knowing me and showing up at parties where these alleged victims – who say they weren’t victims – were at,” Tate explained.
Carlson then asked Tate about the charges he, his brother, and the two women face – expressing confusion as to how the charges they are being accused of constitutes human trafficking, noting that the charges do not pertain to “sex, rape, selling anyone, slavery, moving people across international borders to pimp them out.”
Ep. 14 The Tate brothers have just been released from house arrest in Romania, so it seemed like a good time to hear from Andrew's brother, Tristan. pic.twitter.com/ljOFphj02F
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 6, 2023
Tate responded by saying that human trafficking is a “very loose law” in Romania.
“But that’s certainly what they would have wanted.. As I’ve said, the evidence is junk because they now have to put a case together,” Tate added.
When asked by Carlson what he thinks his arrest and charges he faces are all about, the younger Tate brother said that Romanian officials are “attacking” his brother, Andrew, by coming after his loved ones and those close to him.
“Attacking me is a way of attacking him [Andrew] and attacking my personal assistant and her friend, I think was a way of hoping you were gonna turn these women into prosecution witnesses essentially. To lie and say that we did crimes,” Tate said. “It’s about Andrew and his message. That’s all it’s about.”
Andrew Tate, who is an advocate for what he describes as “traditional masculinity” among men, told Carlson in a previous episode of ‘Tucker on Twitter’ that he believes his message about manhood has made him a target for those who fear men in society that “say no” and have “standards.”
As of press time, the latest installment of Carlson’s video podcast, posted at 6:41 p.m. Central Standard Time on Sunday, had 3.2 million views. The 14 episodes posted by @TuckerCarlson have been seen 569.4 million times on Twitter / X.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Image “Tristan Tate” by Tucker on Twitter.
