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Euronews (19 February 2025)

By Tamsin Paternoster & Andra Diaconescu, Aleksandar Brezar

The inner circle of US President Donald Trump has recently become vocal on Romanian politics, now showing interest in the case of the Tate brothers.

First it was US Vice President JD Vance who unexpectedly called out Romania at the Munich Security Conference last weekend for allegedly undermining its democracy by annulling its presidential elections. Then, South African-born billionaire Elon Musk went on his platform X to show support for ultra-nationalist presidential candidate Calin Georgescu, after invisible campaign gerrymandering caused the vote to be annulled as Romanian authorities suspect Russian interference in the elections. Now, Trump's special envoy Richard Grenell has taken an interest in Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist influencer who is facing criminal charges in Bucharest, raising the topic of lifting the travel ban against him and his brother Tristan with Romania's Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu in Munich.

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