(22 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bucharest, Romania – 22 March 2025
1.Wide of internet influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate walking to media, zoom in
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Tate, Internet influencer:
"I’m glad to be home, back in Romania like I said I’d be. Because innocent men don’t run from anything, we’re here to clear our names and exonerate ourselves. And after all we’ve been through, we truly deserve the day in court, where it is stated that we’ve done nothing wrong. And that we should have never been in court in the first place. We should have never gone to jail. We should have never had our assets seized. We should have never had our name slandered. Anyone who believed any of this garbage has a particularly low IQ."
++WHITE FLASH++
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Tate, Internet influencer:
"Anything else?"
4. SOUNDBITE (English) no name available, reporter:
"Will you return to US after 24th of March?"
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tristan Tate, Internet influencer:
"Uh, maybe. We might. I think that I have my American passport back in my hand. I can travel where I like, you know, if any authorities from any police force anywhere in the world wish to speak to me, they have my number. They will call me and I’ll answer the phone."
++WHITE FLASH++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) no name available, reporter:
"There are allegations that the US government put some pressure on the Romanian authorities."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tristan Tate, Internet influencer:
"We won the case on December 19th, 2024. That’s when the appeal court said there’s not enough evidence here to even have a trial. That was in December 19th, 2024. The president at the time was Joe Biden. And Joe Biden hates me, so I seriously doubt there was any American pressure."
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Tate, Internet influencer:
"I think it’s amazing that people think there was American pressure required to let men go, who couldn’t even get a case to trial after three solid years of imprisonment. I mean, why would you need pressure for that, surely? In any civilized country, when a man spent three years locked in his house for no reason, eventually they’re going to say, okay, you can travel now because we don’t even have a case! I think it’s incredible people are not sitting here thinking they should have let him go way sooner! There’s no American pressure. There’s just the rule of law. We’re innocent men who have never been convicted. And because of that, we’ve come here to prove our innocence, because we deserve our day in court."
9. Tate brothers walking back into house
STORYLINE:
After weeks in the United States, influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate arrived early Saturday back in Romania, where they face charges of human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
The Tates, who are dual U.S. and British citizens, were arrested in Romania in late 2022 and formally indicted last year on charges that they participated in a criminal ring that lured women to Romania, where they were allegedly sexually exploited. Andrew Tate was also charged with rape. They deny all of the allegations against them.
The brothers’ plane — which Andrew Tate said earlier in a post on X cost $185,000 to “jet across the Atlantic to sign one single piece of paper” — landed at Bucharest Henri Coanda International Airport shortly before 1.00 a.m. local time Saturday morning (2300 GMT, Friday).
The Tate brothers’ legal battles are not limited to Romania.
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