Andrew Tate, 38, born Emory Andrew Tate III, and his younger brother Tristan Tate, 36, are U.K.-U.S. citizens born to Emory Tate, an African American international chess master, and mother, Eileen Tate.

On Thursday, an attorney for the brothers implied that Trump helped lift the travel restrictions on them. "I don't know how it came to this," DeSantis told the press. "We were not notified."

Republicans are at odds with a group that invited Andrew Tate and his brother to speak in Florida, despite human trafficking charges.

An attorney for the brothers said they are citizens of the United States and part of an ongoing defamation case in a Florida court.

The abrupt departure of Andrew and Tristan Tate, who had been held in Romania for two years, raised questions about whether the Trump administration had intervened.

Self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan arrived in Florida last week from Romania, where they are facing charges of human trafficking, setting off a fervor of concern and anger – and a state-level criminal investigation.

Despite their leaving the state, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday said an investigation into the Tate brothers "is still ongoing."