Donald Trump is set to let the Tate brothers face extradition to Britain, where they are accused of raping women and choking them until they lost consciousness, despite a pressure campaign directed at the White House.
Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate were detained on Saturday at a bare-knuckle boxing event in Miami after British detectives requested their arrest over allegations including rape, sex trafficking and indecent images of a child.
Their arrest quickly fuelled speculation that Trump could step in to support them, given the brothers’ repeated claims that they have close connections to the President and members of his family.
However, a US official told the Telegraph: “The White House has no involvement and no feelings on the issue.”
The British government said it is pursuing the extradition of the dual US-UK citizens over an initial 21 charges, along with further allegations involving four women between July 2010 and August 2017.
The Tate brothers deny any wrongdoing and insist they are being targeted in a political witch hunt, which they have described as a final move by outgoing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
The ultimate decision on extradition will fall to Secretary of State Marco Rubio after a Florida court has reviewed the case.
Andrew Tate faces seven additional counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and 19 further charges connected to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
Andrew Tate, right, and his brother Tristan arrive at an event, April 11, in Miami
Andrew and Tristan Tate appear before US Magistrate Lauren Louis at a procedural hearing at federal court in Miami, Florida, July 20
Donald Trump responds to a reporter’s question during a bilateral meeting with President of Lebanon Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office of the White House on July 21
Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested at a bare-knuckle boxing event in Miami on Saturday at the request of British detectives over charges of rape, sex trafficking and indecent images of a child
Tristan Tate has been charged with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Their lawyer Joseph McBride suggested that Trump could intervene, claiming the President ‘was elected to fight against this kind of nonsense’ and the Tates had supporters ‘all the way to DC.’
McBride called the UK ‘a fallen state that prosecutes its citizens for free speech.’
One woman, a webcam model, has told investigators that Andrew Tate choked her until she was unconscious and then raped her during an alleged attack at her Bedford home in 2015, the newly unsealed filings state.
A second woman said she slept with Andrew Tate consensually in July 2014, then during a later visit to her Manchester home he choked her until ‘she was afraid Tate was going to kill her,’ the filing said.
Tristan Tate is accused of choking, beating and raping his then girlfriend throughout their relationship in 2012 and 2013, the complaint said.
The woman told authorities he would routinely strangle her until she blacked out, blacken her eye and lash her with a belt, leaving welts and bruises.
The brothers’ lawyers will apply for their release at a hearing on July 27, when a magistrate will decide whether they stay behind bars during the extradition fight.
Joseph McBride, lead counsel for Andrew and Tristan Tate, speaks with reporters outside of the C. Clyde Atkins United States Courthouse on July 20, 2026, in Miami, Florida
Malcolm McHaffie of the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service said that the ‘charging decisions followed receipt of a further file of evidence from Bedfordshire police and bring the total number of alleged victims in this case to seven.’
Britain and the US are bound by a treaty allowing extradition for alleged offences that carry at least a year in prison in both countries.
The Daily Mail revealed last week prior to their arrest that the Tates had met with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill and been hosted at a party by Trump envoy Paolo Zampolli.
The brothers are star figures in the so-called manosphere, preaching misogynist and chauvinist views to legions of fans, many of them teenage boys.
As well as the UK, the pair are accused of wrongdoing in the US and Romania.
The brothers sued an accuser for defamation in Florida.
They also remain under investigation in Romania over claims they coerced women into pornography, an unresolved case that carries rape and sexual assault allegations.
The pair have not set foot in the UK since Romania lifted a travel ban last year.
They touched down in Florida in February 2025, weeks after a senior Trump official reportedly raised their case with Romanian officials.
Asked at the time if his administration had leaned on Bucharest to free them, Trump said: ‘I know nothing about that.’
