Anthony Pompliano interviewed Andrew Tate in 2021 before Tate became famous, then released it years later. The video hit 1.4 million views in two weeks before YouTube removed it. Pompliano says Tate speaks in hyperbole to grab attention, but believes there's truth underneath.
I interviewed Andrew Tate a year before he got like really popular. I couldn't release it at the time. So like we did the interview and everything he was saying at the time, like the climate just was like they would come for me for sure and probably him as well. It's weird to say this, but like when you sit and talk to him and like you remove all the bombastic stuff or whatever, and I said it to him in the interview at the end, he goes, what is the thing I've said today that you disagree with? And I said, everything you're saying has a kernel of truth. You just say it in this super bombastic way because you're trying— Because you're hyperbole. Yeah. Yeah. You're trying to get the views. You couldn't have released it when we recorded it in 2021. He blew up. So we released it. It had in the first like 2 weeks, maybe like 1.4 million views. And then YouTube just took it down.
