Florida AG launches criminal investigation into Andrew Tate; influencer lashes out at Ron DeSantis with conspiracy theory



The Florida attorney general announced that a criminal investigation would be launched against controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate. The 38-year-old former MMA fighter lashed out at the investigation and called the move "absolute communism."

The Tate brothers landed at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida on Feb. 27 after Romania lifted a travel restriction on them.

'If these guys did criminal activity here in Florida, we will go after them with full force of law and hold them accountable.'

According to NBC News, the brothers left Romania while still under a criminal investigation regarding accusations of having formed an organized criminal group, in addition to human trafficking, the trafficking of minors, sex with a minor, and money laundering. The Tate brothers were arrested near the Romanian capital of Bucharest in 2022 along with two Romanian women.

The brothers have denied any involvement in illegal activities in Romania.

In mid-February, President Donald Trump's special envoy, Richard Grenell, raised the issue of the Tate brothers with Romania's Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu at the Munich Security Conference. Hurezeanu said he did not consider the discussion as a "form of pressure."

Last week, Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism said in a statement that the Tate brothers would be expected to appear before judicial authorities if summoned and were warned that deliberately dodging "obligations may result in judicial control being replaced with a stricter deprivation of liberty measure."

The Bucharest Tribunal has not yet set a date for a trial.

The Tate brothers hold U.S.-U.K. dual citizenship.

However, the Tates also face another criminal case in the United Kingdom, where an arrest warrant has been issued on accusations of human trafficking and rape that allegedly occurred between 2013 and 2015.

Ed Davey, a leader in the U.K.'s Liberal Democrat Party, called on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to enact an "immediate extradition" of Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, from the United States.

"Four British women have accused Andrew Tate of rape and human trafficking, and British police have issued arrest warrants," Davey said on Wednesday. "The Tates have tried to escape justice, first to Romania and now to the United States. But I'm delighted that Florida has thankfully opened a criminal investigation."

The Tate brothers have said they "unequivocally deny" any wrongdoing in Britain.

'Florida has zero tolerance for people who abuse women and girls. We will not allow it.'

On Tuesday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that the state would launch a criminal investigation into the brothers.

"Last week, I directed my office to work with our law enforcement partners to conduct a preliminary inquiry into Andrew and Tristan Tate," Uthmeier wrote on X. "Based on a thorough review of the evidence, I’ve directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to execute search warrants and issue subpoenas in the now-active criminal investigation into the Tate brothers."

He declared, "Florida has zero tolerance for people who abuse women and girls. We will not allow it."

Uthmeier said in an interview, "These guys have themselves publicly admitted to participating in what very much appears to be soliciting, trafficking, preying upon women around the world."

"People can spin it however they want, but in Florida, this type of behavior is viewed as atrocious. We're not going to accept it," he continued. "If these guys did criminal activity here in Florida, we will go after them with full force of law and hold them accountable."

Uthmeier said it was an active investigation and did not reveal potential crimes committed by the Tate brothers. However, one of the alleged victims from the Romanian case against the Tate brothers is a Florida woman.

The American citizen has accused the brothers of luring her to Romania under the pretense of a romantic relationship and then pressuring her to work as a pornographic webcam model, according to court documents.

The woman's attorney, Dani Pinter, praised Uthmeier for launching the new investigation.

"Florida AG Uthmeier is right to criminally investigate the Tate brothers, who have publicly boasted about exploiting women yet have continuously sought to undermine the Romanian investigation into these crimes," Pinter said in a statement. "Over 40 victims have been identified across Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They deserve justice."

The Tate brothers sued the woman for defamation in 2023. However, she filed a countersuit against them last month in Palm Beach County, Florida. A video conference hearing is scheduled for Thursday, according to the lawyer for the brothers.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock broke down the controversy swirling around Andrew Tate during a new episode of "Fearless with Jason Whitlock."

Joseph D. McBride, a lawyer representing the Tates, fulminated against Uthmeier and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday.

"Today, Attorney General James Uthmeier threw ethics law out of the window when he publicly took a side in an ongoing Florida lawsuit where Andrew and Tristan Tate are suing a Florida woman for orchestrating a sophisticated plot to use sex as a weapon to ruin their lives," McBride claimed.

He asserted, "Attorney General Uthmeier’s statements are inflammatory, biased, and designed to affect the outcome of our pending civil suit in Palm Beach Court."

"The so-called Florida criminal investigation initiated by Ron DeSanctimonious and his AG lapdog is as meritless as Joe Biden's 'investigation' of Trump and the subsequent raid of Mar-a-Lago," McBride said on X.

McBride challenged Uthmeier to reveal evidence of a crime or "shut the hell up."

'I am super disappointed in the United States. This isn’t the America I know. This is a sad sad day for America.'

McBride made baseless claims that DeSantis ordered an investigation for political reasons to help his wife, Casey DeSantis, if she were to run for governor of Florida in 2026. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) has already declared that he will run in the 2026 gubernatorial race.

"Ron knows that neither he nor his wife appeal to younger voters. Ron knows that Andrew Tate and Tristan have more influence over younger voters than anyone else," McBride alleged. "Ron knows that the Tate brothers vehemently support Trump and by extension will support Byron Donalds."

The day the Tates arrived in Florida, DeSantis was asked about the brothers, and he proclaimed: "Florida is not a place where you're welcome with that type of conduct."

Andrew Tate also lashed out at the decision by Florida's AG to launch an investigation into him and his brother.

"Absolute communism. I’ve been in America for 5 days. I sat on my laptop and did a podcast. Insanity,” Tate wrote in an X social media post on Tuesday.

He continued, "I am super disappointed in the United States. This isn’t the America I know. This is a sad sad day for America. Trying to find crimes on an innocent man. I’m not afraid. I’m genuinely just disappointed."

Tate also attacked DeSantis with a fallacious statement.

"DeSantis allowed feds to raid our president's home. Never forget Mar-a-Lago," Tate wrote on X. The post received a community note correcting the remark.

DeSantis had no authority to prevent a federal investigation by the FBI when agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.

'You think I'm not ready? I'm a Navy SEAL in this s**t.'

Tate also shared the conspiracy theory that DeSantis ordered a criminal investigation into the Tates for political gain.

"Ron DeSantis is attacking me because he was worried I would support Byron Donalds over his wife, knowing I have monumental political weight, and trust our commander and chief President Trump's recommendations completely," the former fighter alleged. "They attacked me to prevent me from destroying his wife's political ambitions. Interestingly, I had no interest in Floridian politics until I learnt how communist the DeSantis admin is. The game is on."

Despite Tate supporting Donalds, the Republican representative said he endorses the criminal investigation into the Tate brothers.

When asked by CBS News if he supports the AG's investigation, Donalds responded: "I do. I think that those allegations have to be fully investigated and then we go from there."

"The key thing is we don't tolerate the trafficking of women or, frankly, the abuse of women. We do not tolerate that," Donalds added. "So if the attorney general finds cause under Florida law to investigate that, then I wish him the best, and I support whatever he's going to do on that matter."

When asked if the Tates are welcome in Florida, Donalds replied: "No, quite frankly not. Because if you listen to some of the dialogue — I find it to be demeaning and disgusting. That's not about being an alpha male. That's not about being a strong man. What they stand for in my view is something totally different."

Tate suggested that he is "one of the most persecuted and hunted men on the planet." Tate also compared himself to Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, and Trump.

During an interview with Candace Owens on Tuesday night, Tate dared Florida authorities to "f**king come get me."

"You think I'm not ready? I'm a Navy SEAL in this s**t," Tate ranted.

Tate challenged Florida authorities to come to his house and "take my stuff."

Tate then said, "You think I sleep with a phone full of evidence? You think I don't wipe my phone every night? You think I'm dumb?"

During an interview on the "PBD Podcast," Tate said he "gets more hate" than convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

BlazeTV political commentator Liz Wheeler delivered her analysis regarding Tate's "PBD Podcast" appearance in a new episode of the "Liz Wheeler Show."

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'Degeneracy of the highest order’: Why Andrew Tate's arrival in the US is NOT welcomed



Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, have arrived in the U.S. after Romanian prosecutors allowed the pair to leave the country, three years after their arrest on allegations of rape, trafficking minors, and money laundering.

The brothers flew into Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Thursday night. Aftering arriving in the U.S., Andrew told reporters that he and his brother were simply “misunderstood” and claimed not to have done anything wrong.

“I think it’s extremely important that we stop allowing media spin, wrap up smears, lies, or carefully constructed narratives from George Soros-funded operations trying to destroy the reputations of good people who have no intention to do anything other than follow the law,” Andrew said.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) did not share the Tate brother’s sentiment, telling reporters that Florida is “not a place where [they] are welcome.”


“There’s a little bit of controversy,” Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” comments. “The Trump administration, to some degree, I think, not defended Andrew Tate, but said something, they were trying to help him out in Romania in some capacity.”

“People seem, on the conservative side, very reluctant to criticize this guy. Best of my knowledge, the stuff that I’ve seen, the guy’s some sort of pimp and bragged about it. I don’t get how there’s any defense for Andrew Tate just out of his own mouth,” he continues.

“His own actions, the stuff that’s caught on film that he’s said and done. He’s some sort of a pimp,” he says. “He’s some sort of spokesman for the manosphere, he's inspiring young men, he's a backlash to feminism, you know, I’m trying to understand it.”

“The issue is Andrew Tate represents many of the values that conservatives and Christians and people who have some sort of moral or ethical compass say that we stand against,” Delano Squires tells Whitlock.

“He’s sex-crazed, he describes himself as a pimp, he’s talked about how he uses or used, at the point he was speaking, used sex to control women, who would then work for him doing cam work. So, basically, OnlyFans before the company was around,” he continues.

“And he talked about how he suckered men out of a lot of money,” he says. “He speaks against traditional values; he’s anti-marriage. When he talks about family, he’s like ‘Look, go to Colombia, go to Thailand, go to some third-world country, second- or third-world country, find you a nice-looking woman, impregnate her, send a few shekels every once in awhile, keep her and the baby alive.’”

“So I think he has the makings of someone who is the worst type of person to follow. He’s a tragic mulatto with serious daddy and mommy issues who promotes degeneracy of the highest order,” he adds.

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Florida follows DOGE’s lead with sweeping regulatory cuts



As the CEO of a regional chamber of commerce, I hear from business owners every day about the overwhelming burden of red tape that slows them down, saps their resources, and often discourages them from expanding or even starting in the first place. Simply put, we need a regulatory framework in government that allows businesses to thrive, not struggle under a mountain of ever-changing and inconsistent regulations. One of the most valuable business commodities is time — and time is money.

While Florida has built a reputation as one of the freest states in the nation, our regulatory framework still raises unnecessary barriers to economic growth. Florida ranks 13th in the Cicero Institute’s assessment of state administrative procedure laws, showing significant room for improvement in how we regulate businesses.

We can ensure that Florida remains a place where entrepreneurs can build, innovate, and succeed without the government standing in their way.

The numbers speak for themselves. With 170,321 regulatory restrictions, Florida is the 11th most burdened state in the nation — placing us alongside states notorious for overregulation, such as Massachusetts, Illinois, and California. These excessive rules don't just create headaches for business owners; they slow innovation, reduce job opportunities, and drive up costs for everyday Floridians.

Florida House Bill 305 would modernize the state’s regulatory system, ensuring we deliver real relief for businesses while keeping necessary protections in place.

We’re at a turning point. President Trump’s victory came with a clear mandate to shrink the size of government. At the federal level, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are diving deep into uncovering a trove of wasteful spending. We have always prided ourselves on being the free state of Florida, a place that no one could ever confuse for the incompetent and reckless federal government — or California and Illinois.

With President Trump and the DOGE leading the charge to make government leaner and more efficient, states like Florida have a prime opportunity to lead, cut waste, and give the people more opportunities to succeed.

HB 305 tackles these challenges head-on by setting clear limits on bureaucratic overreach. Government agencies will no longer be able to establish regulations without explicit statutory authority. This change prevents bureaucrats from expanding their power through vague interpretations of the law, ensuring that only the legislature — accountable to the people — sets the rules that businesses must follow.

The bill would also mandate cost-benefit analysis for all proposed regulations, ensuring that every rule must prove its benefits outweigh its costs. Arbitrary thresholds will no longer determine which regulations face scrutiny. Instead, agencies must conduct retrospective reviews four years later to confirm that their rules deliver as promised.

To prevent outdated and redundant regulations from piling up, HB 305 institutes automatic reviews and sunset provisions. Regulations will not remain on the books forever — they will expire after eight years unless reviewed and deemed necessary to ensure Florida's regulatory code remains modern, relevant, and efficient.

Transparency is another key pillar of this legislation. All regulatory documents, data, and justifications will be available to the public online in machine-readable formats to empower businesses and citizens to access and easily understand the rules that impact their lives and livelihoods.

While we have necessary regulations on the books to guard public health and safety, HB 305 is designed to preserve essential protections while eliminating unnecessary and outdated red tape. By enacting these reforms, Florida can fully align its policies with our pro-freedom, pro-growth principles.

Florida has led the way in breaking free from heavy-handed government policies that stifle innovation and opportunity. Now is the time to take the next step by modernizing our regulatory system. With HB 305, we can ensure that Florida remains a place where entrepreneurs can build, innovate, and succeed without the government standing in their way.

DeSantis launches DOGE task force in Florida to gut 'bureaucratic bloat'



On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced that his administration is launching a state-level Department of Government Efficiency, stating that he took inspiration from the federal agency and Elon Musk's efforts to eliminate government waste.

He noted that the federal DOGE has used "artificial intelligence to be able to police the payments and the operations and the contracts," stating that he would like Florida to adopt similar strategies.

'Florida was DOGE before DOGE was cool.'

"Today, I am pleased to announce that we are launching a comprehensive initiative to continue to streamline our government, and to continue to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy, and to continue to ensure tax dollars are used in the most efficient way possible," DeSantis stated on Monday. "We are creating a state DOGE task force that will implement a multiprong approach to eliminating bureaucratic bloat and modernizing our state government to best serve the people of Florida in the years ahead."

He explained that the state DOGE would exist for a one-year term and end upon the "completion of the mission."

DeSantis noted that his administration has already earmarked over 70 state boards and commissions for elimination.

The governor wrote in a post on X, "DOGE is coming to Florida! Since 2019, we've more than tripled the rainy day fund, eliminated 41% of the state's historical debt, and maintained the lowest number of state employees per capita in the entire country."

"But we need to do more: our state DOGE task force will use AI to amplify our efficiency efforts, spearhead audits at our state universities and tee up the elimination of more than 70 state boards and commissions," DeSantis continued.

"We will also be working with the Legislature to authorize the DOGE-ing of local governments."

DeSantis' executive order revealed that the state DOGE will be established within the Office of Policy and Budget in the Executive Office of the Governor.

It will be responsible for "using publicly available information to identify and report unnecessary spending within county and municipal governments," coordinating with other state agencies "to identify and eliminate unnecessary spending, programs, courses, staff, and any other inefficiencies within the State University System and the Florida College System," and "recommending legislative reforms to promote efficiency, maximize productivity, and eliminate waste in state and local government."

The governor's EO also directed "each state agency" to "establish an Agency DOGE Team."

"Florida was DOGE before DOGE was cool," DeSantis stated.

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Like a dog to vomit, weak Republicans sabotage their own party



We are not a nation of laws, and we never have been. We are a nation of political will, and we always will be. Take Florida for example.

What is happening in the Sunshine State is a reminder that the Bible is always correct. The dog returns to its own vomit. Which is another way of saying no one rises above his own worldview. No one. If you’re a junkie, you’ll continue to be one until your worldview has changed. If you’re an abuser, you’ll continue to be one until your worldview has changed. If you’re a simp, you’ll continue to be one until your worldview has changed. If you’re a resident of Covidstan, you will continue to hate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. until your worldview has changed.

The opposition to RFK Jr., Trump, or DeSantis isn’t really about principles — it’s about the fragile male egos of the 'nicer than God' Christian-GOP establishment.

If there were ever a place where people instinctively did the right thing because it benefited them — without necessarily believing in the underlying principles — it would be Ron DeSantis’ Florida.

He rejected every GOP consultant’s playbook to transform Florida from a place that narrowly gave him a victory over a guy who once snorted cocaine off a gay hooker’s behind to a place that awarded him a decisive 20-point landslide four years later. And incidentally, his victory contributed to the near-total collapse of the Florida Democratic Party. So obviously, a lot of GOP consultants should never work again, right?

Nope! Oh, look! Vomit!

The Florida Republican legislature is eating it up in the name of protecting illegal immigration in Florida by trying to give the state agriculture commissioner more power to police the matter than the governor possesses, thus trying to turn DeSantis into a lame duck as we speak.

Take notes, my friends, because I promise you this: If the GOP loses the 2026 midterms by pulling its punches and channeling the spirit of Mitt Romney, the same type of Republicans in Washington will try to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency. They resent that both Trump and DeSantis forced them to take actions they had long avoided.

If they can’t accept victory in Florida, seize the momentum, and ride the wave to success elsewhere, they won’t do it anywhere. There is no real conservative movement — only men wielding power.

Which brings us back to RFK Jr. and the opposition to his nomination as secretary of health and human services, led by evangelical figures like Mike Pence.

The GOP’s problems stem largely from the same issues that plague the church. In this case, Republicans with weak pro-life records use RFK Jr.’s stance on baby-killing as a smokescreen to excuse their broader failures. Take Francis Collins, for example — a so-called pious Christian who rubber-stamped Anthony Fauci’s disastrous policies that upended American life and pushed the poisonous jab. Collins has never expressed a shred of remorse.

Meanwhile, within two weeks of retaking office, Trump reinstated 8,000 service members to full rank and back pay after they were purged from the military, cracked down on transgender ideology in hospitals and women’s sports, and ramped up deportations of rapists and drug traffickers who prey on children.

That looks pretty pro-life to me, far more pro-life than anything Mike Pence has done. The opposition to RFK Jr., Trump, or DeSantis isn’t really about principles — it’s about the fragile male egos of the “nicer than God” Christian-GOP establishment, whose only true conviction is maintaining a grifty hold on power.

I’m absolutely done with that vomit. And you should be, too. Be honest with yourself and realize that there is more pro-life action being taken by the Trump administration than in all other GOP administrations combined. Take “yes” for an answer and let RFK Jr. go to work in the battle of wills before us.

Ron DeSantis RIPS Florida RINOS for misleading TRUMP Act that works against mass deportations



Not that long ago, Gov. Ron DeSantis considered Donald Trump a foe when he ran against him in the presidential primaries. Today, however, he’s doing everything he can to ensure Trump’s agenda is advanced in Florida. That includes fighting a group of “unbelievable RINOs” in the Florida legislature who are resisting his intentions to support Trump’s mass deportation plan.

This group has even created something called the TRUMP Act, which does the opposite of what its name suggests.

Yesterday, Gov. DeSantis joined Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program” to explain what exactly is in this misleading bill.

He first divided the states into three categories: The “sanctuary jurisdictions” that will attempt to “sabotage Trump’s agenda,” the neutral states that won’t help or hinder, and the states that will offer full support.

It’s the latter he hopes Florida will be.

“After the election, I said this is our chance; this is the number one issue the president ran on, and we need to get it right,” Gov. DeSantis told Glenn.

Unfortunately, RINOs in the Florida legislature are working to thwart Gov. DeSantis’ intentions to support ICE in carrying out deportations. Their resistance has come in the form of something called the TRUMP Act.

“They're playing this game where they think if they put Trump's name on a weak bill that somehow people will think it's going to be good, and it's totally inadequate,” he said.

These RINOs are aiming to preserve “cheap illegal alien labor” that is sought after in certain industries and remove “immigration enforcement authority from the governor” and place it in the hands of the “Commissioner of Agriculture.”

“That's like the fox guarding the hen house,” DeSantis analogized.

Further, under this proposal, “illegals can register [to vote] in Florida” without having to sign an affidavit alleging that they’re U.S. citizens, which violates Florida’s constitution.

“We have in our proposals a rebuttable presumption that illegals that get brought up on criminal charges are detained and then turned over to ICE,” but this group of resistors “watered that down so that judges are just going to release these guys back on the street,” he explained.

These Republicans, DeSantis reminded, “all ran on bashing Biden's border policies,” and argued that Florida needed “to get tough supporting Donald Trump's agenda in 2024.”

Now they’re “bragging” about purchasing “beds for illegals,” he said. “I don’t want to house the illegals, I want to deport the illegals.”

The constituents of these Congress members are unhappy as well.

“I've never seen our base react more negatively on an issue than what the legislature is trying to pull right now. It is like 99 to 1 in terms of opposition,” said DeSantis.

If the voters’ displeasure wasn’t evidence enough that the TRUMP Act is garbage, “Democrats in the Florida Senate were high-fiving them; liberal media in Florida have been singing their praises; the ACLU of Florida tweeted thank you for what you're doing.”

To hear more about the TRUMP Act and how Gov. DeSantis plans to fight it, watch the clip above.

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