Shapiro Roasts MAGA Love For Andrew Tate [Video]

The Daily Beast reports:

Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro has called out his MAGA brethren over their support of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate.

Discussing a controversy that he considers “indicative of a broader problem that the right currently has with the influencer class,” Shapiro recapped how, during an appearance on the right-wing podcast The Benny Show, Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba gushed to Tate about what a fan she was and glowingly compared him to her boss.

The fact that Tate has been arrested and charged in Romania—and faces separate allegations in the U.K.—on suspicion of rape, human trafficking, and forming and organizing a crime group to sexually exploit women didn’t temper her praise.

A partial transcript from the clip below:

Okay, what Alina Habba is saying there is not actually true about Andrew Tate. He is not of the same ilk as President Trump. Find me the person and I’ll find you the crime. But here is the thing. Andrew Tate is at best a crap sandwich. He presents totally differently to different audiences.

So for people, sort of traditional people on the right, when he’s in interviews with them, he will present as a sort of low-rent, anti-feminist talking head. Doesn’t know much, but he’s saying the things that need to be said, bashing left-wing wokeism. And then to the crazier side of the internet, he’ll present as an anti-Semitic radical who’s willing to violate any taboo for the fringes.

And then when he’s sitting down with someone actually conservative, he’ll pretend he’s an upstanding person who cares about family values and that he’s been out of this sort of sex cam business for a while. In the end, what he really is, is a con artist. And he’s actually kind of an evil con artist.

Not kind of, if you believe the allegations against him, and there are lots of them, an actually evil con artist. Even if you just believe the stuff he said about himself, what he says is evil. He made his money off of cam girls, which is to say, pornography.

He is a pornographer. He is a self-professed pimp and pornographer. He made his money grooming women for the sex industry.

Tate, of course, is far more than a mere “groomer and pimp.” He is on video saying multiple times how much he enjoys raping women. But the man-o-sphere cult, led by Elon Musk, pumps out the gushing praise. Tate’s latest con is claiming to be “running” for British prime minister and Musk has promoted those claims.

The Right Should DUMP Andrew Tate pic.twitter.com/oRdHNFs7l9

— The Ben Shapiro Show (@BenShapiroShow) January 13, 2025