Credibly accused sex traffickers and far right influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate headed to the United States on Thursday after Romanian prosecutors lifted a travel ban on them, the AP reports.
In a statement, Romania’s anti-organized crime agency said that prosecutors approved a “request to modify the obligation preventing the defendants from leaving Romania,” but that other control measures remained in place. “These include the requirement to appear before authorities whenever summoned… The defendants have been warned that deliberately violating these obligations may result in judicial control being replaced with a stricter deprivation of liberty measure.”
The agency notably didn’t say who had made the request, though it’s not hard to guess considering that just last week the Financial Times reported that convicted felon President Trump’s “special envoy” Dick Grenell had been pressuring Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu to let the two assholes go.
Grenell had claimed earlier this month that Romania was the “latest example” of funds disbursed by USAID supposedly being “weaponized against people and politicians who weren’t woke.” No doubt that there’s some goddamned line item somewhere on the now-destroyed international aid agency’s books that said “$1.2 million for prosecutorial evidence handling training in Romania” or something like that. This is worth raising because it’ll serve as the pretext for refusing to cooperate with a Romanian extradition warrant if and when a judge determines that the two incel community idols had violated their “judicial control measures” and ordered to turn themselves back in.