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While Britainโs elites sell off the country, he points at Muslims.
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๐จ๐ป๐บ The Tate brothers just can't stop winning, according to their fans. In reality, they are locked up in a Federal Detention Center in Florida, facing extradition to the UK to stand trial on a wide range of serious charges. And Andrew just lost his prized Vanuatu citizenship, a famous tax haven and tropical getaway.
๐จ BREAKING: Andrew Tate's Vanuatu citizenship has been revoked
A Vanuatu government spokesman has confirmed Tate's citizenship, which he purchased in 2022 under the country's citizenship by investment scheme, has now been revoked.
He says Tate should never have been granted citizenship in the first place.
Source: abc au
๐จ๐ฌ๐ง Joe McBride, the Tates' US lawyer, said in July that the case against them was politically motivated: "There's no question about it." Their UK solicitor is now making the same argument, phrased in a quieter, more 'British' way.
On Al Arabiya English, Andrew Ford of Holborn Adams was asked whether Donald Trump could still help. He said the US executive would decide whether the prosecution was politically motivated. He then asked whether it rested on the evidence or on "a deeper cause."
He has the mechanism right. Under the USโUK extradition treaty, extradition is barred if the US executive branch decides a request was politically motivated. That is his audience. The White House has said Trump will not intervene. Marco Rubio has said Washington has no role now, and perhaps ever.
Ford's evidence of political motive was MPs saying the brothers should be extradited. The best-known example is Ed Davey at Prime Minister's Questions in 2025. He said people wanted those accused of such crimes "should stand trial in our country." That is a call for a trial. Ford did not name any MP who has called the brothers guilty.
The first UK charges were authorised in January 2024, under a Conservative government. The US request was made under Labour. The Crown Prosecution Service, independent of ministers, makes charging decisions.
Ford also said the evidence reached the US Justice Department a week earlier and the defence still hasn't received it. He presented this as part of a pattern that would not happen with anyone else. It is the standard treaty route. The State Department reviews the request, the Justice Department files it with the court, and the defence receives it then. Meanwhile, McBride has already told reporters the requests lack the necessary information.
Ford also speculated that the brothers may be held in the special housing unit to pressure them into agreeing to extradition. The Miami bail order of 9 September found they share a cell, are not in solitary confinement, and one or both have worked as orderlies. Their own written bail arguments did not claim they were being punished.
He said Romania could try and convict them in their absence while they are held in the US. The Miami judge found that their detention makes it impossible to take part in the Romanian case. US prosecutors told the court the jail can provide video links.
Ford said comments by MPs and the BBC risk prejudicing a UK jury. In the same interview, he questioned the complainants' credibility on air, in a live case where the prosecution cannot reply.
Both brothers deny all charges in the UK and Romania.
https://t.co/VfVvcAz58e
Thanks to @rinse_639 for the clip.
@TheZombyPop@clavicular@dragomaxxer That was clearly assault. Who is in charge of these moronic children? Surely @kick must bear some legal responsibility for this? They are literally benefitting from abuse.
๐จ๐ฌ๐ง BREAKING: The Tates' UK solicitors say they have begun a judicial review of Britain's decision to seek their extradition from the US. The claim is that Britain is bypassing a Romanian ruling that put Romania's case first. On 9 September, eight days before the announcement, a US federal judge noted that neither Romania nor the UK has asserted any such dispute.
On Piers Morgan Uncensored on 17 September, Andrew Ford and Adam Rasul of Holborn Adams cited a March 2024 Bucharest Court of Appeal ruling. It approved the brothers' surrender to the UK but postponed it until the Romanian case concluded.
That ruling governed surrender from Romania. The brothers' own travel log, filed in Miami, records 43 international flights between February 2025 and July 2026. In April 2026, a Bucharest court lifted their judicial control. They were arrested in Miami on 18 July.
In her bail ruling, Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis said the defence was asking her to resolve "a purported dispute between two foreign nations, that neither nation has actually asserted." US prosecutors filed letters from the Romanian government supporting their opposition to bail. The order notes Romania has not sought to intervene to assert any interest contrary to the UK's.
On 4 September, a DIICOT spokesperson told Reuters it was not immediately clear whether DIICOT would seek the brothers' extradition from the US. Romanian law allows trial in absentia.
The defence also asked why Britain had not moved sooner. The defense made that argument in Miami too. The judge declined to treat the delay as grounds for bail, noting it sat in tension with the defence's own claim that the UK had moved too early.
On air, the defence said the brothers would be extradited once Romanian proceedings conclude. The dispute is over timing.
In judicial review, the first formal step is normally a pre-action letter. No claim has been reported as issued. The High Court rarely interferes with prosecutors' decisions.
Andrew and Tristan Tate deny all charges in the UK and Romania.
@CelineOlsson I couldn't find it (which is why I didn't post it), but I thought I saw something along those lines (that Romania was absolutely ok with the UK going first). Maybe @CrayonMurders, @Gadget440, or @thePAXWAX have access to it?