More luxury cars were seized from Tate's property in Romania's capital Bucharest on Saturday, two days after a court placed him under house arrest for 30 days. Prosecutors are also investigating allegations of human trafficking and sex with a minor.
READ MORE:It’s difficult to overstate the influence that Andrew and Tristan Tate’s father had on them. Emory Andrew Tate II was an international master in chess and won the Indiana state championship six times.
The story goes on to tell how Master Po and his ‘apprentice’ fought their enemy, with the Master finally defeating the leader of the rival clan in hand-to-hand combat. At the heart of this parable is his father. He is revered by War Room members for his discipline, a theme that is integral to Tate’s conception of masculinity.Emory Andrew Tate II died in 2015 aged 56, after suffering a heart attackTate’s followers refer to a mythical realm, Wudan, ruled over by ‘Master Po’, ie, Emory.
‘The bottom line of punishments always comes back to violence. It’s the standard on 99 per cent of the planet still today. It’s the standard even in the West, in most places: you f*** with your parents too much, you get a smack.
‘And being a fantastic man isn’t about being happy. You can be a fantastic woman if you focus your life on being happy. But if you’re a man and you only focus on hedonism, you are not going to be a good man. Today, there are men out here doing drugs, being idiots, running around drinking all the time, and their only concern is being happy. They are not good men. The men who do good things for society, do things they don’t want to do because they feel a sense of duty and honour.
When Tate told this story, he did so with a smile and a nostalgic glint in his eye. His followers gave a knowing chuckle. But to us, parts of it sounded abusive. Whether it was true or apocryphal is difficult to say. What’s certain is that it served a purpose. It was part of the myth-building whereby Tate achieved superhuman status through the suffering and hardship ‘Master Po’ put him through.
Of his father she said: ‘He was this high-IQ individual who had not mastered the day-to-day tools it takes to live a quality life. So, he would always be dressed like a bum and not shower. But my mother really enjoyed his company because he was so eccentric.’ That eccentricity went so far as to claim he was a spy. ‘He spoke Russian fluently. He spent a lot of time there. He told my mother a crazy tale of being electrocuted on an escalator in an attempt on his life. He showed her the mark on him.
One of the biggest questions about Tate is whether he is genuine or a performance. Perhaps to a generation that grew up with social media, this distinction is of diminishing relevance. His rise to fame has been characterised by blending reality and myth. Like his father, Tate enthrals people with stories he tells about himself. But it would be wrong to dismiss him. His popularity does not just amplify misogyny, but undermines trust in democracy and the media, in some cases challenging belief in reality.
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