President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt had a one-word answer about whether the White House would intervene in the UK extradition case against the former manosphere Maga heroes, Andrew and Tristan Tate.

These two letters spell out the extent to which Trump’s reputation has been damaged by his association with the late paedophile Jeffery Epstein. The President can’t afford to spend his depleted political capital defending a pair of alleged sex abusers.

The dual national British-American Tates face multiple charges in the UK of rape, sex trafficking and sexual assault. Andrew Tate faces additional charges of “indecent images of a child and extreme pornography” – a particularly sensitive allegation in Maga-land after the Epstein files fallout.

The brothers, who both deny any wrongdoing, have spent the last week in a Miami jail, allegedly in solitary confinement according to their lawyer. Andrew Tate claimed self-pityingly on X he was being held “next to a cannibal who screamed through the night”.

Joseph McBride, the Tates’s Maga-friendly lawyer, who represented January 6 riot defendants, tried pushing the usual buttons that trigger Trump’s sympathy. He claimed this week the brothers were “political prisoners on American soil”, so far to no avail. 

This contrasts to February 2025 when........

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