(22 Mar 2025)
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Bucharest, Romania – 22 March 2025
1. Internet influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate speaking to media
++SOUNDBITES ON ONE CONTINOUS SHOT++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Tate, Internet influencer:
"Anything else?"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) no name available, reporter:
"Will you return to US after 24th of March?"
4.. 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. Forty-four times I went to court in Romania. Not because there was a trial, but to see if I would be allowed to travel. And I told judges 44 times, I’m not a flight risk. Please return me my passport. Please don’t keep me locked away from my family. So I know that when I left, there was some backlash. I know that when I left, people were being pressed about the controversial decision about two men who had already had their case dismissed, being able to travel and see their families again. Well, you know, here I am back in Romania, as I said I would be. So all 44 of those court hearings, including my – the ones that happened when I was taken from prison – were completely worthless. There was no point in doing any of them."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Tate, Internet influencer:
"And that’s, that’s a very interesting point, guys. Let’s actually analyze. They kept saying we’re a flight risk. We left and we came back. So all of these three years of imprisonment were a complete waste of time against innocent men who have never been tried. It is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty in a democracy. We’ve never been convicted of any crime anywhere on the planet, ever. And as my brother said, we have our passports back. And just like you, you, you, anyone else here decides to take a trip? They’re allowed to take a trip. We live in Romania. We love Romania. We’re never going to leave Romania. We have a house in Romania. We have Romanian children. We’re going to be in Romania all of the time. If we feel like a holiday, we’ll take one. And if a court needs to speak to us, we’ll be there because we are innocent."
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
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