Andrew Tate is a piece of human garbage. I don’t say that lightly, and anyone who’s watched this channel knows I believe in non-dehumanization even for people I despise.
But the facts are the facts: a man who’s built a business empire on degrading women, who was caught on camera assaulting his girlfriend, who ran a “PhD program” he openly called the “Pimping Hoe Degree,” and who is now facing 59 charges in the UK for things like sex trafficking, assault, and child abuse imagery is not a good guy trying to help men be better men.
He is exactly what the evidence says he is. So when George Janko who is a MASSIVE Christian podcaster with over 5 million followers across platforms, released a teaser casting doubt on those charges, I had to respond to the full segment.
It’s worse in context. In the full clip, George actively builds a case for reasonable doubt. He compares Tate’s prosecution to the Epstein case, implying some kind of selective conspiracy (”why are they not doing this with all the politicians... they don’t touch them at all”).
He entertains AI-generated evidence as a real possibility. His co-host and wife worries aloud about being “wrong” if Tate turns out to be innocent as if seven alleged victims, years of Tate’s own recorded words, and 59 separate charges not including the charges he’s facing in Romanic aren’t proof enough.
Here’s the thing: you don’t get 59 charges without evidence. Police don’t work that way. And you don’t get to platform a man’s “passion for making men better” while refusing to grapple with the reality of his own words describing grooming tactics, describing assault, describing the business model of trafficking.
This is the part I need you to sit with for a second, because it’s the actual argument of this piece, not just a critique of one guy. George frames his hesitancy as open-mindedness. “I don’t want to stand up too much because what if I’m wrong.” That sounds humble. It isn’t. It’s a rhetorical technique. It’s the same one used by every bad-faith actor trying to launder an indefensible position into “just having a conversation.”
Compare it to how George treats other topics. He had Matt Walsh on to rail against trans people in prison with zero hand-wringing about nuance. No “well, we just don’t know” there. No nervous caveats. The uncertainty only shows up when the accused is a man who teaches boys to see women as targets.
George isn’t alone. Bryce Crawford interviewed Tristan Tate with kid gloves. Conor McGregor who was found liable for sexual assault by a jury, a verdict upheld twice on appeal gets rebranded as a Christian redemption story. Russell Brand, facing multiple assault allegations, is out getting baptized on tour.
There is a pattern, and the pattern is the point: soften the men who serve the culture-war machine, no matter what they’ve done to women, and treat any doubt about them as an attack on their character.
After backlash, George posted an “apology” that renounced nothing. There was no acknowledgment of Tate’s actions, no retraction of the doubt he cast, just a vague “I’m endorsing Jesus, not Andrew” and an admission he “went too hard on the clickbait.” Then, when Andrew Tate’s fanbase turned on him for even that much distance, George deleted the apology entirely.
Read that again.
A five-million-subscriber podcaster who talks constantly about being fearless, being “the leader men need,” about not caring about fame or money got bullied by misogynists into scrubbing the one video where he came closest to saying the right thing. That’s not strength. That’s not principle. That’s a man checking which way the wind is blowing and folding immediately. It’s cowardice.
If you’re a conservative Christian and you want to hold a moral line, hold it consistently. Apply the same scrutiny to the men who assault women that you apply to the people you’ve decided are the “real” threat to the family and the culture. Andrew Tate is not a misunderstood mentor being persecuted by a shadowy state. He is a documented abuser with a business model built on exploitation, and the only mystery here is how many “Christian” platforms will keep finding reasons to give him the benefit of the doubt.Jesus didn’t run a pimping degree program. He didn’t cry persecution from the powerful. He told men to deal with their own lust, not sell it as a curriculum. Whatever George Janko is selling, it isn’t that.
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