Scholar flags ‘tip of the iceberg’ of what could be 'biggest' Trump scandal 'in history'

President Donald Trump and his family could soon be confronted with “one of the biggest scandals” he’s ever faced, scholar and journalist Sidney Blumenthal argued in a video published Saturday on the legal commentary network “Legal AF.”

At the heart of the potential scandal is the recent arrest of MAGA influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, both of whom are facing extradition on charges involving human trafficking, rape and child pornography.

“We have a scandal that is one of the biggest scandals of the Trump administration and its dimensions are literally unknown right now. And there’s a call for an investigation, we have not gotten to the bottom of it,” Blumenthal said.

“If you think it’s just about the Tate brothers, you’re wrong because the Tate brothers’ extradition to the United Kingdom is just the tip of the iceberg of what may be the greatest international crime syndicate with the greatest political influence in history… it’s about the politics and the network at the center of the Trump world where the Trump world is an underworld.”

Joining Blumenthal for the discussion was investigative reporter Nina Burleigh, who, as a journalist who had investigated Jeffrey Epstein for years, dubbed the Tate brothers as the “millennial version of Epstein.”

The Tate brothers were previously arrested on rape and human trafficking charges in Romania in 2022, but after pressure from the Trump administration, were allowed to leave the country. Since then, Burleigh noted, both brothers have been “welcomed back into the fold” by Trump’s allies.

“They were invited to the White House, they were at the Milken conference with Paolo Zampolli, Trump’s special envoy for special projects, and they were swatting all over the world,” Burleigh said. “So basically given a free pass by the United States government to our great shame, and they have lived here for the past year and a half.”

Burleigh also flagged another key figure in Trump’s inner circle: Richard Grenell, the president’s envoy for special missions, who she claimed “played a key role in springing the Tates from Romania,” and was “closely tied” to the brothers.

“Rick Grenell went over to Romania and pressured the government to allow these guys to leave the country. So right there, you have material for investigation because that was a foreign legal matter that our country went over and put the thumbscrews to spring these two guys,” she said.

“They’re the millennial version of Epstein; they have a type of network that is similar in that it relies on the trading of females and the abuse of women as the glue that connects them to each other. But it’s also a financial and political power node that they inhabit.”