Andrew and Tristan Tate have sold themselves to millions of impressionable young men as the ultimate avatars of masculinity: fabulously wealthy, lethally successful and unapologetically alpha.
But there is apparently now another way to understand the online personas which made them rich and notorious – think of the ludicrous fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, known for his outdated sexist attitudes and politically incorrect pronouncements.
That, at least, was the extraordinary comparison offered by Tristan Tate in court in Miami on Thursday as, alongside his brother, he sought release on bail ahead of extradition proceedings to the UK to face multiple charges including
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