Border Czar Homan Denies He Took $50K from Undercover Agents

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Border czar Tom Homan rejected reports that he took a $50,000 bribe from federal agents, his most forceful denial yet of his alleged involvement in an FBI corruption investigation.

Posted by lamplighter at 08:33 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

"Ridiculous and childish, right? There has been strong reporting to the effect that Tom Homan took $50k in cash in a paper bag ... And now they're having hissy fits at reporters who want better, clearer, fuller answers from the administration about what actually happened there." trib.al/ZNZ9oha

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-- The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) Oct 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM

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There is video of him doing it.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-10-16 02:15 PM

More from the article ...

... "I didn't take $50,000 from anybody," Homan said in a Wednesday night appearance on NewsNation's "Cuomo" town hall.

MSNBC first reported last month that the FBI recorded Homan accepting $50,000 in cash from agents posing as business executives seeking government contracts in an undercover operation before he began his role in the Trump administration. Homan said in a September interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham in the wake of the reporting that he did "nothing criminal" but did not initially say whether he accepted the payment or not. ...

In a Sunday interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Vice President JD Vance declined to say whether Homan accepted and kept the $50,000 payment but insisted that the border czar "did not take a bribe."

Attorney General Pam Bondi also declined to say whether or not Homan accepted the alleged bribe during a confrontational congressional hearing, maintaining that the investigation was resolved before she was confirmed as attorney general. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-16 02:16 PM

@#1 ... There is video of him doing it. ...

Perhaps AG Bondi has managed to "disappear" that evidence?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-16 02:24 PM

Doesn't matter what evidence is present.

We're in a place where they say what reality is and behave as if that is actual reality.

We've been there for months but the golly gee whiz media keeps presenting it as "Noem mistakenly lists Habeus Corpus as a Presidential power" type obtuseness.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-16 02:38 PM

"There is video of him doing it."

Who are you going to believe? Honest, Christian Republicans, or your lying eyes???

#5 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-16 03:05 PM

"I didn't take $50,000 from anybody"

Nooooo, it was $50,062. That's just a suggestion. But the fact remains it's taken him nearly a month to come up with that explanation. I have a high degree of confidence Tom Bag of Cash Homan is at least as dirty as the operation he heads.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-16 03:57 PM

What a missed opportunity to call it a Democratic Hoax.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-16 03:59 PM

@#7 ... What a missed opportunity to call it a Democratic Hoax. ...

Yeah, I was surprised that Mr Homan didn't take that approach.

Perhaps he realized the futility of such an approach?

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-16 10:10 PM

Poi Dog Pondering - Everybody's Trying (Album Version) (1990)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
[Verse 1]
I know you're bitter, but why, why, why?
Don't you know that two wrongs don't make a right?
It's not that simple, no
It's not that simple

[Chorus]
But everybody's trying to figure it out
Everybody's trying to work it on out
Everybody's trying to figure it out
Everybody's trying to work it on out

[Verse 2]
I feel so detached today, I don't know
I feel so detached today, I don't know, know, know
It's not that simple (No)
It's not that simple
...

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-16 10:14 PM

When you have a felon like Trump at the top nobody should be surprised when a thug like Homan, who finds himself situated rather farther down the bribery ladder, feels a need to "wet the beak" every now and again.

Hope the shawarma didn't stain the dough, though.

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-17 05:49 AM

Let him say that under oath.

#11 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-10-17 10:47 AM

"There is video of him doing it."

Who are you going to believe? Honest, Christian Republicans, or your lying eyes???

#5 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

Have you seen the video?

He was hesitant to say it before because he knew a video existed.

But he can say it now because they told him no worries .. that video no longer exists.

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-17 11:23 AM

Where are all the rightwing scumbags to defend Homan? Their silence speaks volumes.