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You have children. My God in heaven, what world do you want for your children and grandchildren. It's up to you These are the kinds of people the current administration bails out — and they want you to believe that’s normal. Andrew Tate, alongside his brother Tristan Tate, has built a brand around driving young men toward hyper-masculinity, misogyny, and sexual exploitation. He’s been described as the “king of toxic masculinity.”He’s under criminal investigation in Romania, the U.K., and facing civil suits in the U.S. on allegations ranging from human trafficking to rape. Tate has repeatedly boasted about how his worldview exalts dominance, shades women as inferior, and normalizes abuse — a worldview that, disturbingly, has attracted millions of young male followers eager for guidance. Yet when he stepped back on U.S. soil in February 2025 customs agents confiscated his electronic devices upon arrival, triggering the start of a federal investigation. But someone high up decided Tate was worth protecting. A former lawyer for the Tates — a Paul Ingrassia — now working as a high-ranking lawyer in the White House as liaison to DHS/DOJ, reportedly intervened and demanded the devices be handed back. According to interviews and records reviewed by investigative journalists at ProPublica, Ingrassia explicitly told senior officials the order came from the White House. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Gary Peters have launched a formal inquiry into the White House’s intervention — calling it “brazen interference with a federal investigation.” Their letters demand all internal communications about the decision to return the Tates’ seized devices and warn that letting political insiders meddle in a trafficking probe is a direct threat to the integrity of federal law enforcement. One DHS veteran said he'd never seen anything like it in thirty years. He called the demand for returning seized evidence “an intimidation tactic.” So here’s what this really says: if you’re wealthy, loud, and flog an ideology of misogyny — and you’ve got the right connections — the law becomes negotiable. Meanwhile, countless survivors of abuse, survivors of trafficking, immigrants, marginalized people — they don’t get a hotline to the White House. They get suspicion, surveillance, harsh sentences, deportation. They’re told the letter of the law is justice. But what we just witnessed with the Tate brothers is not justice — it’s favoritism. It’s leverage. It’s power protecting its own. The question we need to be demanding is this: if the law is bendable for someone like Tate, what hope do ordinary people have? If criminal investigations are ignored when doors open to men with influence and hate-spewing platforms, justice becomes a sick joke.