Donald Trump successfully pressures Romania into releasing human trafficking child rapist so he can return to the US

I agree with a commenter in the thread below that this story is extremely symptomatic of where we are and how we got there:

Right-wing influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have left Romania on a private jet headed for the United States, their lawyer told CNN, after prosecutors lifted travel restrictions on the pair leaving the country.

The Tate brothers, who are dual US and UK nationals, had been banned from leaving Romania after being arrested in 2022 and charged with human trafficking, sexual intercourse with a minor, money laundering and starting an organized crime group. They have denied all wrongdoing.

Ioan Gliga, their lawyer, said the brothers left Romania Thursday morning and are flying to Florida.

“They no longer have a travel ban… The prosecutor, at the request of the lawyers, modified the content of the obligations previously imposed,” Gliga said.

The decision by Romanian authorities to lift the ban came after the US reportedly put pressure on Bucharest to ease restrictions on Tate, a self-proclaimed misogynist who has a huge online following and has become a cause célèbre on the American right.

Earlier this month, the Financial Times reported, citing sources, that President Donald Trump’s administration had pressed Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions on Tate, first in a phone call, then when Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell met Romania’s Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

These people — and I mean every single one of them — are pure scum.