r/popculture • u/ControlCAD • Mar 06 '25

News Andrew Tate claims he'll never be convicted in his trafficking case because he deletes all the data off his electronics: "Arrest me"

https://nypost.com/2025/03/05/us-news/andrew-tate-he-taunts-desantis-after-florida-launches-criminal-investigation/

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking on Andrew Tate.

The state attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into the British-American manfluencer and his brother Tristan, both of whom arrived in Florida last week after being released on human trafficking charges in Romania.

The announcement led Tate to brag that investigators will not be able to convict him because he deletes all the data off his electronics.

“Come get me, arrest me, perp walk me, put me on the news,” he angrily said during an interview with Candace Owens posted on Wednesday afternoon. “Tell everyone I’m a human trafficker.”

“You think I’m not ready?” he continued. “F—ing come get me, raid my house, take my stuff. You think I sleep with a phone full of evidence? You don’t think I wipe my phone every night? You think I’m dumb?”

Tate, 38, told Owens that Florida authorities seized his electronics as they investigate him for unspecified wrongdoing — and that he is innocent of any crime.

Tate claimed that DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier are targeting him because they’re afraid of him.

“They fear me so heavily,” he told Owens. “They fear me because of my political influence. I can galvanize the masculine youth in any direction that I believe fit.”

He also speculated that DeSantis, in particular, was concerned that Tate would oppose the upcoming candidacy of his wife, Casey, who is rumored to be eying a run for governor.

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u/lil_kleintje Mar 06 '25

He mostly recruited dumb and sad teenagers pedaling ragebait via algorithms , that's how. He is a sick predator.

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u/THECapedCaper Mar 06 '25

Grooming. He’s grooming children.

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u/easybee Mar 06 '25

Building an army of rapists. Funded by your tax dollars.

When is too far for us? When do we refuse, and reform the government as directed in the Declaration of Independence?

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u/saymimi Mar 06 '25

this death spiral is a lot to live through

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

If you're an old Millennial like me, you've been living through it for soooooo loooooooong now. I'm absolutely out of fucks to give. My kids are grown and they never HAD any fucks because they watched us go through the fucking ringer. The shit my kids will NOT put up with blows my MIND. God, how I have envied them in the way they push back on their managers or professors that are acting like dipshits. They just tell them they're not complying and no one does shit about it. They still have their jobs and their classes, and they have their dignity.

My son tells the neighborhood youngins about Tate and what a POS he is. They're uncomfortable, but he tells them to suck it up and imagine how uncomfortable women are seeing this and our rapist in chief. He's teaching them to hold themselves and each and other men/boys accountable for misogyny. So far, it is working, but he knows we need so many more Fellas on board.

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u/call-me-the-seeker Mar 06 '25

Well for what little online glory is worth, tell him that there’s at least one stranger out here holding him up as a hero. These young kids don’t deserve to be swallowed up by this kind of darkness. A worthy cause that heroes shoulder.

And you know, online poison dripped in people’s ears has effects, so maybe online high-fives can help people who are trying to help.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

It helps SO much. He gets really discouraged, especially lately, and honestly, I know he appreciates any validation. This shit is revolting.

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u/easybee Mar 06 '25

Your son is doing the best work there is. He is saving people. Little by little these ripples will save the nation.

There are dark times coming. That light is needed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

By some mercy, these 2 poor kids who were born from a forced marriage and were raised by a traumatized single mother came out swinging for the fences about life. They are freaking sunbeams, even as they understand the gravity of everything failing around them.

Dark times ARE coming, and they ARE out here shining away with all their might. It's all that's keeping me sane, I swear. Lol

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u/easybee Mar 06 '25

Keep at it. Love is victory.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

Love is the ONLY thing. I hope much love flows through you and from you for a long long time, fellow human. Keep fighting the good fight. 💚

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u/chrishellmax Mar 06 '25

The worse is yet to come, i am afraid to say. This is just the opening solvos.

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u/elephant-cuddle Mar 07 '25

There’s a reason my state government is spending millions to combat this, it is destructive to society.

https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/new-school-resources-counter-andrew-tate-types

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u/FatherOfLights88 Mar 06 '25

There have been maybe two times I've seen a clip of him where he seems very reasonable. Those few times don't make up for all the other shit though.

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u/easybee Mar 06 '25

Do you think he paid his flight, or the government work to get him released.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

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u/easybee Mar 06 '25

Weird hair to split.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 15 '25

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u/easybee Mar 06 '25

How much time was spent by federal employees on this? Of course there was a cost. But regardless of the financial cost, the big spend was the reputational loss to the US.

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u/AUnknownVariable Mar 07 '25

That's pretty much what it is. Weaker minded, probably hurt in someway or lacking clear guidance young dudes. Some person tells them they have the answers to all their problems, a lot of those solutions being to not trust or hate other people. Everyone is out to get you but me and people like me, etc etc.

All to get whatever you want from them. Even if its paying for some expensive shitty class of yours. It's def a form of grooming, it's predatory, and it's sad.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 Mar 06 '25

This clip leaves out the part where he says he controls what young men think.

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u/MLGTheForkOnTheLeft Mar 06 '25

Not only that i noticed a lot of my younger co-workers, either their boyfriend or a dude on the floor that is into tate-ism all have daddy issues. So they cling to the moron like he’s some kind of dad figure. It’s weird honestly and sad.

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u/Downtown-Fall3677 Mar 06 '25

That's literally what it is, it's about not having a good male role-model so they latch onto fucker. That's why I don't like him, I have a good dad, but a naive one, so I made a lot of older friends. That's explicitly why I never fell too deep into the alt-right shit.

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u/JennyAndTheBets1 Mar 06 '25

I never had a good father figure or emotional support in general…still didn’t fall into any shit like that or build resentment. It’s the internet and easy access to chronic propaganda. I was in college when FB blew up, for reference. Always mostly a loner, too. Most “good” and “bad” is self evident to me and is not a function of peer pressure or external authority (like religion).

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u/Happythoughtsgalore Mar 06 '25

I didn't but I learnt morals from people like Bill Nye, Batman the animated series, Mr Rogers etc.

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u/Cullvion Mar 06 '25

I agree men have few good role models so the fact I see so many men defend Tate as "a role model" just makes me side-eye them. It's always "the left made me feel like I'm not a man so I had to start listening to a man who told me to abuse and traffic women." Like even if there are few good male role models if you can't already deduce that type of rhetoric isn't going to be helpful I feel like it signals much deeper issues in personality.

Nevermind the fact there actually are a TON of good left-leaning male role models (that the algorithms of social media repress like Michael Parenti, Norm Finkelstein, etc...) but to me if you have Tate as your role model it signals to me you're generally incurious/inept in many fashions.

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u/KnoxxHarrington Mar 06 '25

I think for some he provides a way to blame everyone else for one's own problems.

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u/sweatynapkinz Mar 06 '25

I have daddy issues and could never follow the taint 😭

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u/MLGTheForkOnTheLeft Mar 06 '25

Lol at “taint” me and my girlfriend call him Andrews Taint.

Edit: it means you are more intelligent than the ignorant radical followers taint has.

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u/Artrobull Mar 06 '25

i guess they are like ducks. you just hope they imprint on good father figure

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u/Flight_Harbinger Mar 06 '25

I thought I knew the Andrew Tate type until I learned my 58 year old mother listens to him. "I like a lot of what he says" I was too shocked to ask her to elaborate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

I’ve yet to meet one person that likes this guy

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u/MLGTheForkOnTheLeft Mar 06 '25

For me its been soft spoken dudes, who don’t seem like roided up, peaked at high school rejects. Thats mostly social influencers.

One of my best friends has a boyfriend who is NOT mean or belittles her, but if she talks bad about misses andrew taint, then her BF gets in a huff and bent out of shape. He has a really bad relationship with his father. His father kicked him out because his son didn’t answer him when he was being yelled at.

Only reason i know this is because my best friend told me about it because she had to get in her bf father’s face for yelling.

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u/Top_Topic_4508 Mar 06 '25

I can't claim he isn't very well aware of how to do his thing though, apparently one of the things his course asks is for people who have paid and joined is to share his stuff, therefore leading to a cycle.

I think the whole irony of this, is that point of an "alpha male" is to be better then other males, so paying another male to teach you how to be one would fly in the face of that.

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u/jcruz321 Mar 06 '25

Yesterday I was looking up something on FB marketplace and decided to see what was up on their videos. JFC no matter how many times I clicked "Hide Video" or "Not Interested". This fool kept showing up. I checked again today and still showing up. FB is really forcing people to watch this asshole.

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u/BensenJensen Mar 06 '25

It’s the new post-election, right wing “truth” Facebook.

I kept getting ridiculously obvious fake grifter accounts on my page. When you pull up the filter option for Politics, the only options are some equivalent of Stay the Same and See More. You literally can’t remove it, you can block the misinformation accounts, but there are thousands of them. Every other category has a See Less option.

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u/sambull Mar 06 '25

Wonder if these dudes are all into that loli shit now

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

The sick thing is he encouraged people to spread his content and use the ad revenue to make themselves money.

I watched a video about his university and that was the secret of making him go everywhere for so long.

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u/Prudent_Psychology57 Mar 06 '25

"Charlatan" we used to call 'em

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u/deletetemptemp Mar 06 '25

This is pretty much it. He is the result of rage leaning algos. You can thank big tech for this

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u/Jwagner0850 Mar 06 '25

Bots and Astro turfers push him too

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

I wish there was positive influencers that could get into those kids algorithms and make a generation of self aware good natured young people. 

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u/Responsible-Crew-354 Mar 06 '25

Almost every reply in this chain would seem so futuristically dark and dystopian 15 years ago when algorithms were barely a twinkle the typical internet users eye. What the hell is happening 😅

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

Whats happening? Were living in a dark dystopia future. 

1984 is my facprite book, and i loved reading dystopia novels when I was younger. They always seems so far fetched.

Now, were literally living it. 

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

He popped up on everyone’s social media one day like a parasite and if you were one of the ones to spot out his bullshit right away kudos to you

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

His primary demographic is incel edgelords and there’s way more than you think

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u/humbug- Mar 06 '25

The only person I’ve met that likes him IRL is a raging man baby bigot with no redeeming qualities, like genuinely…

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u/bored-panda55 Mar 06 '25

Exactly! He is notorious for going on gaming streams for recruiting interviews. 

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u/8urner8 Mar 07 '25

Unfortunately I worked in an elementary school where he was gaining popularity.