Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested in Miami over the weekend after UK prosecutors added 38 new charges to the 21 they were already facing, bringing the total to 59 charges relating to seven alleged persons across offenses said to span between 2010 and 2017. The new charges include further counts of r*pe, s*x trafficking, and child por**graphy.
Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored, US attorney and former Florida state senator David Aaronburg said the brothers could spend the rest of their lives behind bars if convicted on all counts.
He also noted that Florida’s attorney general has been pushing for accountability well before the federal arrests, stating that “Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, and his attorney general have been trying to get them arrested in Florida. They’ve been investigating them. They want them out of our state.”
With an extradition treaty in place between the US and UK, Aaronburg said the legal direction is clear, even if the timeline is not.
He said, “It may take a while, it may take a year, it may take two years, but these brothers, I believe, will be sent back to the UK and they will face justice.”
As dual US citizens, the Tates are expected to challenge extradition at every level of the court system, potentially reaching the US Supreme Court. Aaronburg was direct about their chances.
“It’s a loser. They’re not going to stop the extradition.” He also said the appeals process offers little relief. “They’re not going to be out there living the high life like they have been in Florida. They’re not going to be co-hosting bare knuckle competitions. They’re going to be in a cell while they wait through the appeals.”
Lawyer Joseph McBride issued a statement calling the charges politically motivated, describing the UK as “a corrupt and fallen nation that jails its own citizens for tweets while ignoring rape gangs it found too inconvenient to prosecute.” He labeled the case “a political hit ordered by a dying empire that fears two free men with a microphone more than it fears actual criminals walking its streets.”
Online supporters including Nick Fuentes called for the Trump administration to block extradition. Aaronburg said there is little the administration could realistically do, noting only Secretary of State Marco Rubio could theoretically intervene at the tail end of the process, and even that would be nearly without precedent.
On the question of sentencing, Aaronburg was unequivocal. “The rest of their lives in prison,” he said. “And that’s just in the UK. There’s also charges back in Romania. And there’s an investigation still underway in the United States. I do not think that the Tate brothers will be able to go back to the life they’re used to. I think they’re facing the rest of their lives in a prison cell.”
