The lawyer for Andrew and Tristan Tate has said that Donald Trump's help is 'not necessary' in their fight against extradition to the UK to face rape and sex trafficking charges.
With legal proceedings under way in Florida, Joe McBride told the Press Association 'the process has got to play out', and the current involvement of the president was 'not necessary'.
He was speaking after reports Mr Trump would not step in to stop the brothers being handed over to the British authorities.
McBride confident in case merits
Mr McBride had previously raised the possibility of the president intervening in the extradition proceedings, arguing 'he was elected to fight against this kind of nonsense'.
The Tate brothers, who hold dual US and British citizenship, were arrested by US marshals in Miami at the weekend and appeared before a federal magistrate for the first time on Monday.
They were detained after more charges were brought against them by UK prosecutors and are currently being held in federal custody.
In the coming weeks, a US district judge will consider whether they meet the conditions for extradition.
Mr McBride said: 'We're in a court of law. We need to be respectful of the court that we're in, and we believe that we're going to go in there, we're going to get a fair fight and that we're going to win on the merits of our case.'
'If Donald Trump parachuted in today from Air Force One and said “Stop everything”, like it would be a win for us, but we would not have won on the merits. So right now… we're not even asking for help.'
He added: 'The process has got to play out. If an injustice happens, well then you know we will go up the appropriate channels.'
Charges against the Tate brothers
Andrew Tate, 39, was charged with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
Tristan Tate, 38, was charged with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the 38 additional charges, in addition to 21 existing charges, relate to alleged offences between July 2010 and August 2017.
The brothers have denied any wrongdoing.
