Vidineac said he believed Tate had been playing a particular kind of character on social media that may bear no relation to real life. “Can intent on social media stand as evidence in a criminal prosecution case?” he asked.
The Alex Jones defense "My client is merely an actor playing a part."
"I only trafficked those women as part of a bit!" probably isn't the slam dunk that they're looking for.
He actually is getting the rich guy treatment. I'm pretty sure a normal guy bumbling their way into standing between the ghoulish Romanian oligarchs and their precious Schengen agreement would have put their legal appeal days behind them so to speak. But also, I'm pretty sure he can't bribe his way out of this one, because by these people's standards he is actually not rich. He owns a dozen or so fancy cars, but he managed to make himself the enemy of the people who own all the roads. Accepting a bribe from him now would have a certain "I'll pay you $10 000 to stand between Haliburton and their entire quarterly profits" vibe. I don't think anyone is going to accept that deal, and if someone were to, I'm certain that no one will look at what happened to the first guy and want to step into that role.
I'm sure many of the oligarchs who are about to make sure that Romania's police and court systems do their job (serve capital) are actually even worse than him when it comes to the amount of human suffering they have caused, but it's a bit like if he had been caught by Hannibal Lecter instead of the Romanian police. As a woke liberal leftist I actually find some of Dr. Lecter's actions very problematic and I would for sure support clapping back at him or even canceling him entirely if he doesn't mend his ways, but also the idea of Andrew Tate making himself a target of Hannibal Lecter to win an internet argument with a teenager is pretty funny. And that is pretty much what he did.
it’s a bit like if he had been caught by Hannibal Lecter instead of the Romanian police
Does this mean he'll become the special ingredient in a super fancy version of jellied eel ("with a side of salty taters") served to a bunch of buerocrats in Brussels?
I'm not a professional chef so I can't say what this means for Andrew Tate. Though when I put it that way things are perhaps not looking great for him.
Bragging to the world about how easy it is to do human trafficing in Romania and how he has bribed officials when the main obstactle to Romania joining Schengen is them being known as a corrupt sex trafficing hub. This is not a defense of the Schengen countries. You can still do all that of course, but you can't look like that. Andrew Tate made himself the embodiment of making Romania look like that, while having no connections to the true upper class who truly run the country, at the worst time possible. That will probably not be remembered as the greatest decision in the world.
Never be embarrassed for learning something new, comrade.
Hope he rots in Romanian prison forever. Human trafficking is one of those cases where I stop being a prison abolitionist 🤷♂️
i support incarceration of andrew tate on the basis that i don't like him
I support holding a lottery and the he will be sacrificed to the god of the winners choosing.
I actually don't support incarceration in this case, but I do support him not being allowed to exist (in society).
"Your honor, have you considered that I'm white and rich? I rest my case."
He's half black but for the sake of this joke he is all anglo.
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Tate and his followers aren't even wrong about "The Matrix" being out to get him.
Epstein was an open secret for years before the considered burning him.
Tate latches onto male alienation, tells them that salvation is making money through The Grind™ and stocks, and then using that money to buy sex and cars to have sex on top of.
If he was smarter he would have the same level of sickening lifestyle and continue whatever crimes he's committing, but instead he's gonna get dropped. Then all his followers view this as punishment for speaking truth to power.
