James Uthmeier says Andrew and Tristan Tate keep digging themselves ‘deeper into a hole’

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The investigation continues.

Attorney General James Uthmeier says Andrew and Tristan Tate are continuing to push their luck amid a probe into potentially illegal activities launched when they came to Florida a few weeks ago.

During an appearance on “The Dana Show,” Uthmeier condemned the brothers’ “weakness and sickness,” and suggested that a case against them continues to build.

“Every time these guys open their mouths, it gets them deeper in a hole,” the Gov. Ron DeSantis-appointed legal officer said.

“If we can show that they committed crimes on Florida soil, then we will continue to pursue them, you know, at all costs.”

Uthmeier said the two are “charged with horrific things around the world” and “go public and they make jokes about being with girls that are 15 or 16.”

“They make jokes about not knowing the age of consent in Florida, in the United States. When you have victims coming forward, when you have public admissions, when you have criminal investigations around the world, there are clearly reasons why we, as a state, have a duty to investigate and protect our citizenry. And we will continue to do that,” Uthmeier promised.

“When it comes to human trafficking and preying upon, you know, our women and girls that are not at the age of majority, we will stop at nothing to protect them.”

While the Tates have been accused of human trafficking in Romania and face civil action for sexual abuse from four women in Britain, they have not been convicted there or anywhere else, despite a wide array of sordid soundbites and lurid anecdotes about them.

Andrew Tate continues to bait Florida into arresting him, and recently trolled First Lady Casey DeSantis by suggesting that she won’t be elected Governor if the state lets him run free.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


One comment

  • PeterH

    March 17, 2025 at 4:44 pm

    Trump and the Tate brothers have at least one political strategy in common…… keep appealing to a higher court for relief.

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