Will Trump save the Tate brothers from extradition?



Two of the internet's most notorious manosphere influencers got arrested again this weekend.

On Saturday, U.S. Marshals cuffed Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami, reportedly en route to a bare-knuckle boxing event. Footage of the handcuffing went viral almost instantly, with the internet immediately fixating on the brothers' rumpled outfits — particularly Andrew's choice of a tight and revealing purple blouse.

Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a 'political kidnapping.'

By Monday, the fashion critique gave way to a Miami courtroom, tan jail uniforms, and total silence while their lawyer vowed to fight the latest extradition attempt to the United Kingdom.

Between the two brothers, this round alone adds up to 38 new charges — rape, sexual assault, trafficking for sexual exploitation, and, for Andrew, 19 counts tied to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography, plus an alleged pattern of choking victims, sometimes to unconsciousness, before assaulting them.

These charges add to the 21 original charges by the Crown Prosecution Service from May 2025 — bringing the total to 59 charges, all of a similar nature.

A separate, ongoing Romanian case accuses them of running a coercion scheme — faking relationships with women to trap them into producing pornography that authorities say generated over $2.8 million and nearly $1 million in crypto tokens.

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Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a "political kidnapping." He's dangled the idea that Trump might personally intervene to block it — McBride has said the president hates "political persecution and communism," referring to actions by the U.K. government.

The Justice Department has pushed back on the political persecution framing, directly confirming to the Associated Press that leadership of its Criminal Division approved the arrests — contradicting McBride's earlier claim that it was greenlit by a "low-level functionary" without leadership's knowledge.

Because the Tate brothers are dual United States-British citizens, the final call on whether they get shipped overseas ultimately falls to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has the discretion to approve, block, or sit on the extradition order regardless of what the court decides.

McBride's case that the arrests are a political witch hunt leans hard on the brothers' Capitol Hill victory lap the week before the arrest. A photo circulated online appeared to show Andrew and Tristan posing with a member of Congress, part of a swing through D.C. that also included a stop at the Ned, an exclusive private club near the White House.

Three days after that trip, they were in handcuffs — a coincidence McBride has seemingly leveraged to argue that the case is politically motivated. He has maintained that the brothers are innocent.

A Miami judge ordered both brothers to be held in federal custody until the next hearing on Monday, and McBride estimates a final decision is around 60 days out.

Blaze News reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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Trump administration official alleges 'human trafficking' amid first-of-its-kind H-1B fraud investigation



After months of calls for our leaders to investigate and put an end to legal immigration abuses, the Trump administration has begun to play offense.

On Wednesday, Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito appeared on Fox Business to announce a major development in the Department of Labor's fraud investigations.

'As the Inspector General, my top priorities are exposing fraud, protecting American workers, and putting criminals in cuffs.'

The focus, according to the inspector general, is on the H-1B visa program and PERM, otherwise known as the Program Electronic Review Management system. He said these investigations "without a doubt" have yielded evidence of fraud — and "human trafficking."

In the interview, D'Esposito said the Department of Labor will take "what we believe is probably the most aggressive action against foreign labor fraud by an inspector general in this administration."

He added that the agency has "already started to issue dozens of subpoenas. We are going to make sure that we track down every lead." He mentioned that there are "whistleblowers talking about some of the biggest companies, like Cognizant, who have been ... in chatter of issues with PERM and H-1B visas."

While the investigation does not in itself indicate any form of wrongdoing, according to Department of Labor data from the second quarter of 2026, it is true that Cognizant draws heavily from the H-1B program.

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In this three-month data set alone, Cognizant successfully certified approximately 3,440 H-1B visas, according to government data.

A similar review of PERM data from 2025 revealed that the top 10 companies that use this program are:

  • Microsoft Corporation;
  • FPL Food LLC;
  • Consolidated Catfish Producers LLC;
  • South Georgia Pecan Company;
  • JCG Foods of Georgia LLC;
  • Akash Management LLC;
  • Oracle America Inc.;
  • Merit Logistics;
  • Wal-Mart Associates Inc.; and
  • Salesforce Inc.

The PERM program had roughly 80,700 certified applications in 2025. However, it is important to note that this program is not itself a visa issuance program. Rather, it is a preliminary step toward approval in certain visa categories.

"My team, in conjunction with President Trump and Vice President Vance's Fraud Task Force, has worked relentlessly to uncover fraud, safeguard taxpayer dollars, and hold bad actors accountable. For far too long, fraudsters believed they could game the U.S. employment-based visa system and get away with it. They were wrong," D'Esposito said in a Tuesday press release.

"This isn't just paperwork fraud — it's the exploitation of vulnerable workers, forced labor, the displacement of American workers, and abusive human trafficking. As the Inspector General, my top priorities are exposing fraud, protecting American workers, and putting criminals in cuffs."

D'Esposito added that his team will be working closely with President Trump and Vice President Vance's Fraud Task Force "to exhaust every lead."

Blaze News reached out to Cognizant as well as the Office of the Inspector General but did not immediately receive a response.

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He rescued underage girls from sex trafficking — his Epstein insight leaves Allie Beth Stuckey chilled



Today, Trey Tucker is a therapist and an author, but he used to go on undercover human trafficking raids — rescuing young girls out of the dark clutches of sex slavery.

In total, Trey helped rescue 20 underage girls and women out of trafficking rings. The memories he carries still haunt him.

But they also give him insight. On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey asked Trey to weigh in on Jeffery Epstein’s sinister sex trafficking operations and his ability to wield enormous influence over so many people. His perspective gave her chills.

“How is it possible that some of the most powerful people in the United States, some people that we’ve looked to as moral exemplars, some of the most powerful people in the world, are apparently part of a pedophile trafficking ring?” she asks.

“The stuff that I was hearing long ago that ... most people dismissed as conspiracy theories, I said, ‘No, that’s probably real,’” Trey says. “I didn’t have firsthand access to whatever was going on on that island, but I’ve seen the depravity enough to know, yeah, that can happen to any of us if you really let that go that far.”

He describes the elite world as a “power club” that can only be accessed by doing something that gives the group “blackmail” against you.

“It’s hard for me to understand the hold that [Jeffery Epstein] had on so many people,” Allie says.

She asks, “From your therapist perspective, when you’re looking at those power dynamics and just his personality, like, what do you see?”

Trey says he sees the primordial human struggle to attain “satisfaction” — not just in Epstein himself but in all the people who occupied his power circle.

“Epstein himself, he was just the puppet or the pawn. Like, he just had that magnetic charisma about him, and he was the guy at the door, like the bouncer that could let you into this world that you thought was going to satisfy,” he explains.

Allie wants to know more about the “psychology” behind a charisma like Epstein’s. “What makes someone publicly appealing even if we know that they’re not good people?” she asks.

“It comes down to really two major categories: identity and psychological safety,” Trey says.

Someone’s identity, he explains, can essentially be hijacked and manipulated by a powerful public figure.

It is entirely possible, Trey tells Allie, to “take someone’s beliefs, political or otherwise” and “transform them” so that they become the core of that person’s identity. Anyone who then opposes those beliefs isn’t just disagreeing with that person; they are “attacking” their very identity.

What is happening at the neurobiological level, Trey says, is “you’re moving beyond somebody’s logical brain and ... into their subconscious, and when the subconscious takes over, it shuts down the prefrontal cortex — the logic brain.”

This produces fear, causing the individual to “fight and argue no matter what the actual facts are.”

“And so these politicians know how to take what should be just a nuanced issue where the front of your brain is just thinking evaluatively, and they know how to go right to that subconscious and put you into fight or flight mode instead,” Trey explains.

The second component, psychological safety, exploits someone’s inherent need to feel safe. This need is so strong that people will often override their sense of logic just to get it.

“Any politician that really is charismatic, they know that people are anxious, they’re uncertain, and if they can bring a level of strength and certainty, then people will look past their record,” Trey says.

He warns that this isn’t a partisan issue. “It really doesn’t matter the party. Like, all these politicians, I believe they’re just actors within the same play.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the full interview above.

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Damning texts expose elementary school assistant principal in cross-country prostitution scheme with porn star: Feds



A highly compensated New York City elementary school assistant principal is accused of operating a cross-country prostitution scheme, according to multiple reports.

Bond Ng, 47, was arrested Sunday and charged with enticing a person to travel in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution, according to the New York Post.

'It's arguable that the defendant groomed her.'

Ng was released on a $150,000 bond. As part of his release conditions, Ng must stay away from the public school where he works and wear a GPS monitor, and he's restricted from leaving New York City.

Ng is an assistant principal at P.S. 16 in the Corona neighborhood of Queens. Ng earns $173,029 a year, according to public payroll records.

Ng is the supervisor in charge of "testing, school safety, technology, transportation and trips, school aides," according to the school's handbook for students and families for the current academic year.

The New York Daily News reported that Ng touched down at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City last Friday after a trip to Cartagena, Colombia. Ng was flagged for a second inspection.

Homeland Security officers recovered two of his cell phones containing what the Daily News described as "damning text messages" between him, a porn star, and the "porn star's clients."

Citing a federal criminal complaint, the New York Times reported that Ng told investigators he was the "manager" of a woman who appeared in pornographic online videos.

The Times noted that Ng informed authorities that he arranged meetings between the Los Angeles-based porn star and her "fans" in New York, including at his luxury apartment in the neighborhood of Long Island City.

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The complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court stated that Ng would pretend to be the adult entertainer when communicating with potential clients.

In one text message, Ng gave a prospective client a price quote of $2,000 per hour with the porn star, along with additional fees for specific sex acts or a filmed encounter, according to court records.

"My rate is 2K lover," Ng wrote in a text message to a potential client, according to the complaint.

Prosecutors said Ng asked the porn star to fly from Los Angeles to New York to have sex with a prospective client in December 2025, but the woman was hesitant to travel because of the cold weather.

However, Ng told the adult film star that the client wanted to meet her for more than seven hours and had already paid him $10,000 for the sexual experience, according to the criminal complaint.

Prosecutors revealed that Ng texted the porn star a list of the clients and meetings that he had arranged for her, including the type of sex and the amount of money to be paid for the illicit encounters, which totaled over $20,000.

The complaint noted that the porn star arrived in New York on Dec. 28, then flew back to Los Angeles on Dec. 30, but not before texting Ng: "Thank you for letting me use your apartment."

The Times said Ng communicated with potential johns as far back as 2021.

Sources told the Daily News that the porn star is not a minor.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Amzallag said in court Tuesday that there was an investigation into whether Ng is part of a broader human trafficking operation because he took multiple short trips to Colombia, according to amNY.

Amzallag also hinted that Ng may have been "more coercive than we originally thought," and added, "It's arguable that the defendant groomed her."

Ng's defense attorney Michael Schneider declared, "The crime he’s charged with, I have to say in my 28 years as a federal defender, I have never seen prosecuted."

New York state Sen. Jessica Ramos (D), who represents District 13 in Queens, said she was "deeply disturbed by the serious allegations outlined in the federal complaint involving an assistant principal in our community."

A parent of an 8-year-old student at P.S. 16 told the New York Post, "This is very dangerous for the kids. I'm angry about it. He should never be around kids, and he should never come back here."

The Post obtained a letter sent by the school to parents that said Ng had been "reassigned" and banned from the school premises pending the outcome of the investigation.

A spokesperson for the New York City Department of Education declined to offer a comment and referred questions to federal authorities, the Post said.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

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