The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump pressured Romanian authorities to allow Andrew Tate to travel while charged with crimes including trafficking minors and violently beating and raping a 15-year-old girl, the New York Times reported in an article published December 10, 2025, as cited in X posts over the past 59 minutes from 11:16 AM to 12:15 PM UTC. An X post by @Gadget440 shared the New York Times article, stating it provided more details than previously available on how the Trump administration pulled strings with Romania during Tate's legal proceedings. A separate X post by @tysonbrody, linking to the same New York Times article at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/andrew-tate-barron-trump-romania.html, stated that Barron Trump is a big Andrew Tate fan and receives dating advice from their business partner, described as the ‘third Tate brother’. An X post by @covie_93 reported that Trump's Department of Justice is dropping a FIFA corruption case after Trump received a FIFA 'peace prize', linking to a source at https://x.com/covie_93/status/1998942759944954047.
