Podbit · The Ben Shapiro Show
The right has a pattern of embracing morally bankrupt figures simply because they transgress leftist norms. Ben Shapiro argues this is both a moral failure and a political liability — one that the Tate brothers' arrest makes impossible to ignore.
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The weekend's second major story: Andrew and Tristan Tate, the influencer brothers long accused of sex trafficking, were arrested Saturday by federal authorities in Miami, according to CBS News and the U.S. Marshals Service. They are being extradited to the UK, where the Crown Prosecution Service announced that four additional victims have come forward with new charges — rape, sex trafficking, assault, and child or extreme pornography. [1] — Ben Shapiro "Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested by federal authorities in Miami and are being extradited to the UK. Four addition…" 05:30 Shapiro notes that the Tates had been openly residing in Romania to exploit what they viewed as a disorganized justice system and to avoid potential arrest in Britain. The arrest, he says, is not a gigantic shock given their long legal exposure. He also notes the allegation involving a girl who was reportedly 15 years old, visible on tape in a sexual context with Andrew Tate — a fact he says was long publicly known.
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested by federal authorities in Miami and are being extradited to the UK. Four additional victims came forward with charges of rape, sex trafficking, assault, and child pornography.
The Tate brothers relocated to Romania specifically because the Romanian justice system was disorganized and they feared arrest if they returned to Britain.
The UK Crown Prosecution Service announced that four more victims of the Tate brothers came forward, bringing new charges of rape, sex trafficking, assault, and child pornography.
Andrew Tate is reportedly on tape engaged in sexual activity with a girl who was 15 years old at the time, according to contemporaneous timelines.
Ben Shapiro argues that a segment of the right reflexively endorses transgressive figures regardless of character, a phenomenon he says he has been warning about for years.
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