If Andrew Tate’s escape from Romania had been scripted by Netflix, the algorithm would have demanded a shadowy fixer, a midnight convoy, and perhaps a storm for dramatic lighting. The truth, as always, is more inconvenient and far more absurd. Tate did not pry open his travel ban with brute force or legal genius. He did it with the strange, sticky power of cultural legitimacy. And in 2025, nothing confers cultural legitimacy quite like an association — however flimsy — with the Trump brand. Specifically, with the Trump heir who doesn’t speak publicly, doesn’t tweet, and doesn’t seem particularly interested in politics, yet somehow carries the gravitational pull of a minor planet: Barron Trump. The youngest Trump did not personally free Andrew Tate. Let’s get that out of the way. But he

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