Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) slammed President Donald Trump on Thursday after his administration reportedly pressured Romanian authorities to launch influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, twin British-U.S. residents who had been charged with human trafficking in Romania.
Moskowitz — in an look on “CNN NewsNight” — joked that he was “lucky” to have “new constituents” in his district after Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist recognized within the right-wing “manosphere,” and his brother landed in Florida following Romanian authorities lifting their journey restrictions.
“Look, we heard from Trump on the marketing campaign path, proper, different international locations had been sending rapists, individuals from insane asylums, human traffickers. These guys actually are these individuals,” Moskowitz instructed host Abby Phillip.
Trump notably launched his 2016 campaign by claiming immigrants from Mexico had been “bringing medication” and that “they’re rapists” — claims he’d construct on together with his anti-immigration rhetoric in subsequent years.
As just lately as Wednesday, the Trump administration ripped Michael Moore’s criticism of mass deportations by claiming that he was going to bat for “cold-blooded criminals” from different international locations.
“The Trump Administration will stay targeted on placing our personal residents first by mass deporting unlawful migrant rapists, murderers, and different criminals out of American communities,” White Home Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai stated in a press release.
The Tate brothers, each supporters of the president, were arrested in 2022 for allegedly forming a prison group to sexually exploit girls. Andrew Tate was charged with rape, as nicely. Each brothers deny the allegations.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — in response to the brothers arriving in his state — told reporters that “Florida will not be a spot the place you’re welcome with that sort of conduct,” including that he wasn’t “concerned” or “notified” on the brothers’ flight to Florida.
Moskowitz, who previously labored beneath DeSantis because the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Administration, stated the governor “means” what he stated on the press convention.
