Josh Hawley book ridicules TikTok misogynist Andrew Tate – but is silent on Trump

Exclusive: Republican senator derides influencer, saying: Every man who has been in a locker room recognises the type'

In his new book, the Missouri Republican senator Josh Hawley derides Andrew Tate, a social media influencer and self-proclaimed king of toxic masculinity", for sleeping with as many women as possible, berating them, abusing them and celebrating it all as manly, as freedom'".

Criticising Tate for fake bravado" and endless boasting", Hawley adds: Every man who has been in a locker room recognises the type ... those aren't the words of a man; those are the words of a child pretending to be a man."