The latest such beneficiary is Andrew Tate, a former kickboxer and professional misogynist. That is not a pejorative or emotive term; it is a self-admitted description of his worldview. “You can’t slander me because I will state right now that I am absolutely sexist and I’m absolutely a misogynist, and I have fuck-you money, and you can’t take that away,” he famously bragged in a podcast in 2020.
In addition to preaching misogynistic views, Tate has faced multiple criminal investigations for allegedly acting on them. In Romania, where he and his brother Tristan resided, prosecutors charged the two men with rape and human trafficking in 2022. British prosecutors obtained an arrest warrant for them last year in connection with similar allegations in that country 10 years ago. They have lived under house arrest for most of this decade while they await prosecution and/or extradition.
Nonetheless, the Tate brothers landed in Florida in a private jet on Thursday. Their arrival is the perfect symbol of the Trump administration’s approach to crime and justice. The defining question in federal criminal cases right now isn’t whether a defendant is guilty or not guilty. It’s not even whether they’re poor or rich. (Though it always helps to be the latter.) It’s whether you are friends with President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
Trump and his allies have sought to cast the hundreds of Americans charged with attacking the Capitol as “political prisoners” and otherwise law-abiding citizens. Their records suggest otherwise. One pardon recipient from Tennessee has since received a 10-year prison sentence for drunk driving, which led to the death of a passenger in another car. Another recipient from Indiana was shot and killed by a local police officer while he was resisting arrest just one week after Trump took office.
Other people in Trump’s orbit have also received increasingly favorable treatment since he took office. Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, faced civil charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission for his role in allegedly defrauding investors in a crypto market that he owned in 2023. Sun also happened to be the largest buyer of Trump tokens from World Liberty Financial, which recently launched a memecoin in the president’s name and on his behalf. The SEC told a federal judge in New York last week that it wanted to put the case on hold for 60 days, a common first step before settling or dismissing charges.
Other public figures ensnared in public corruption probes have sought to curry Trump’s favor as well. Bob Menendez, a former U.S. senator from New Jersey, was sentenced to 11 years in prison last month for his role in a foreign bribery scheme. Though Menendez was a longtime Democrat, he sang a different tune after sentencing and complained that the Biden Justice Department had targeted him. “President Trump was right,” he claimed. “This process is political, and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.”
At a House hearing on the so-called Department of Government Efficiency earlier this month, for example, California Representative Robert Garcia sharply criticized Musk’s actions and urged his fellow lawmakers to push back against them. “What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight,” he said, according to The Washington Post. “This is an actual fight for democracy.” Martin, in turn, sent a letter to Garcia claiming that those metaphorical remarks “sounds to some like a threat to Mr. Musk” and urging him to “clarify” his comments. It would be hard to take Martin’s letter as anything but an attempt to intimidate Democratic lawmakers.
The overall message of these actions is clear: The law, such as it is, exists only at the pleasure of the sitting president. He can kill investigations into his friends or order them against his foes. He can pardon violent criminals and welcome accused sex traffickers into the country as long as they’re his allies. He can effectively commandeer the elected government of the nation’s largest city by holding a potential federal prosecution over the mayor’s head. All of this has occurred in just the first five weeks of the second Trump administration. January 20, 2029, is 203 more weeks away.
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