WASHINGTON
A women-led gender-justice organization has launched an advertising campaign against Andrew and Tristan Tate, accusing President Donald Trump of facilitating their return to the United States after being held for charges in Romania.
UltraViolet’s campaign is online and through physical posters in English and Spanish that will be placed in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood on Thursday. The bright yellow placards show a photo of Andrew Tate with the headline, “Unwanted in Miami” or “Ojo: Peligro en Miami.”
They brand him as a “sexual predator imported to the U.S. by President Donald Trump.”
Asked last month if his administration pressured the Romanian government to release the Tates — who deny the accusations against them — Trump said he knew nothing about their return.
It’s still unclear what role — if any — the Trump administration had in Romanian authorities’ decision to allow the Tates to leave the country while facing human trafficking charges. UltraViolet’s initiative is designed to pressure the Trump administration to intervene.
The posters include a QR code directing viewers to landing pages providing detailed information on the Tates’ alleged crimes and a petition signed by over 10,000 people asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to extradite the brothers to the United Kingdom to face charges of sexual misconduct.
“The goal is two-fold. Survivors deserve justice. The Tates have to face their accusers in a court of law. That is our primary goal. We’re also looking to warn women and girls in Miami and across the country about the danger these men represent,” said Rosa Valderrama, the South Florida-based director of the campaign.
UltraViolet, a 501c3 organization with over 1 million members nationwide, has a history of advocating against high-profile men accused of sexually predatory crimes, including Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, and Bill O’Reilly.
The Tates’ attorney, Joseph McBride, blasted UltraViolet’s campaign in a statement to the Miami Herald.
“Feminism is a cancer that is responsible for the breakdown of the natural family, the rearing of pathetic men, and the genocide of children in the womb. The fact these losers want to jail Andrew and Tristan Tate for preaching their version of traditional masculinity highlights the fact that these fascist feminists are fragile weaklings incapable of defending their position in the free marketplace of ideas. Long live the First Amendment,” McBride said.
The Tate brothers, who remain under investigation in Romania, where they face charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal group to sexually exploit women, are believed to have spent a significant portion of their stay in Miami — a city where one of their accusers also lives.
Tate told interviewer Patrick Bet David that his release was conditioned on returning to Romania once a month.
“My bail conditions are that I have to return on the 23rd of March and I’ll make it very clear … I am going back. I’m going to fly back and obey my bail conditions. I’m not running from anything, because I’m not a coward,” Tate said.
Over the last three weeks, Tate has embarked on a media tour with friendly podcasters and interviewers and on Wednesday he posted a photo of himself online seated in a bathrobe peering at the New York City skyline, indicating he was most recently in New Jersey.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said his active inquiry of the Tates would continue even if they had fled Florida, but no charges have yet to be filed.
Andrew Tate told Bet David he “had no idea” if Trump factored into his release but indicated his displeasure with Gov. Ron DeSantis, who said the misogynistic influencers weren’t welcome in the state and called for the investigation.
“I think he did it because he caved under media pressure,” Tate said of DeSantis, while heaping praise on Trump. “Americans are being released all around the world because we finally have a president again and I seem to be one of them.”
